The Winding Stair and Wild Honey Press are pleased to announce that
Mairéad Byrne, Gabriel Gudding, Randolph Healy and Máighréad Medbh will
read their poetry in The Winding Stair, 40 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1,
Ireland, at 8.00 p.m. on Thursday January 13th next.
.Admission £1. Negotiation possible.
Mairéad Byrne lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a lecturer at Ithaca
College and a visiting fellow at Cornell University. Her poem "The Pillar"
has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Seneca Review. New
work is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly and the Literary Review. She is
the author of The Golden Hair (Project Arts Centre 1982), Safe Home
(Project Arts Centre 1985), Joyce -- A Clew (Bluett & Company 1982), Eithne
Jordan (Gandon Editions 1994), and Michael Mulcahy (Gandon Editions 1985).
Her poems have been widely published and anthologised.
Gabriel Gudding is a lecturer at Cornell University. His poems and essays
have been published widely in the United States in such magazines as The
American Poetry Review, The Nation, The Iowa Review, etc. He lives in
Ithaca, NY, with the Irish poet Mairéad Byrne and their two small
companions, Marina (age 12) and Clio (age2.75) He loves his life with these
3 ladies and is researching possible ways of stunting the growth of the
girls so that they can stay this cute forever.
Randolph Healy runs Wild Honey Press which has published over twenty poetry
chapbooks. His works include Rana Rana!, Arbor Vitae, Flame and Scales.
Some of his poems will appear the forthcoming Oxford anthology British and
Irish Poetry since 1900. He lives near the Dublin Wicklow border with his
wife and four daughters. Some of his work can be found at the Sound Eye
website:
http://indigo.ie/~tjac/sound_eye_hme.htm
Máighréad Medbh was born in Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. Following her
first poetry collection, 'The Making of a Pagan' (Blackstaff Press 1990),
she has worked mainly in performance poetry with many tv appearances and
gigs nationwide and in Great Britain. Her poems have been published in
several anthologies including 'The Virago Book of Wicked Verse'; 'Ireland's
Women : Writings Past and Present'; 'I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine'
(Viking); and several others. She has done support for Christy Moore and
performed at the 1997 Famine Commemoration in Millstreet. In 1998, she came
second in the Nora Fahy Literary Awards and won Dublin's first Poetry Slam,
to gain the title 'Bard of Temple Bar'. 'Tenant', which was published this
year by Salmon, is a historical narrative sequence based during the famine
years, 1845-49.
Máighréad's website is at:
http://expo.nua.ie/wordsmith/MaighreadMedbh/index.html
Visit the Sound Eye website at:
http://indigo.ie/~tjac/sound_eye_hme.htm
or find more Irish writing at:
http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr7/contents.html
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