Kathleen McCracken
1960 Kathleen McCracken was born in Dundalk, Ontario, Canada.
1978 Kathleen's first book of poetry, entitled Reflections , was published by Fiddlehead Books in.
1980 It was followed by Into Celebration (Coach House Press,),
1988 The Constancy of Objects (Penumbra Press,) and
1991 Blue Light, Bay and College (Penumbra Press,). Blue Light, Bay and College was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1992.
2002 A Geography of Souls , was published by Thistledown Press,
2007 (October) a new collection, Mooncalves , is forthcoming from Exile Editions in October.
Kathleen McCracken has given readings in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Dr. McCracken (University of Ulster, Coleraine) is currently writing a critical study of the work of Irish poet Paul Durcan.
Kathleen Reads in Monasterevin House at 3.30 pm on Tuesday 24th July; at The Festival Club at 9.30 Tuesday 24th
DAVID AXELROD
Long Island's newest Poet Laureate, appointed to serve from 2007 to 2009. He is an author and sponsor of international writers' programs covering dozens of countries and nearly forty languages. He has performed and taught as an author and educator lecturing in England, France, Sicily, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Hong Kong and throughout the People's Republic of China.
Himself a student of 10 languages, author of 16 books, his work has been translated and published in numerous languages including Albanian and Bulgarian, Chinese and Japanese, Hebrew and Yiddish, Italian and Sicilian, Greek and Macedonian, Russian and Romanian, French and Creole, Spanish and Portuguese, German and Dutch among others!
As founder and director of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., David Axelrod continues to provide information on the writing arts. In that capacity he also publishes arts books under the imprint of Writers Ink Press. More recently he founded 3WS, World-Wide Writers Services, a network for authors and editors aiding international publication and exchange.
David will read in Monasterevin House 3.30, Tuesday 24th.; and at the Festival Club on Thursday 25th at 10.00 pm.
DESMOND EGAN
Bred, born and reared in Athlone, Desmond Egan's close identification with the town emerged in his Collection Athlone? (1980).
A full-time writer, Desmond has had 18 collections of his poems have been published; one collection of Prose; two translations from the Greek. Two books of Criticism about his Work have been published in the USA where a video documentary has also been made for TV. Eighteen books of translations of his work have been published all across Europe and in Japan and Russia. Egan has been the recipient of a number of awards notably The National Poetry of USA Award (1983) and the Bologna Literary Award (1998). In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Washburn University.
In 2000, a short poem of his was chosen for The Poet's Garden in Annascaul, Co. Kerry where it is inscribed on a stone seat. In the same year, his poem Peace was translated in 24 languages as a poem of the millennium.
Desmond is a founder and Artistic Director of The Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School (last week in July each year).
Desmond reads his poem PEACe at the Medellin Poetry Festival.
Desmond Egan reads his poem, PEACE at the Medellin International Poetry Festival
Desmodn reads at 4.30 on Wednesday 25th July
Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy was born in Westmeath in 1947. His short stories
are collected as Banished Misfortune (London, Allison & Busby, 1984). His novels are Fighting with Shadows (London, Allison & Busby 1984); The Goat's Song (London, Collins Harvill, 1994); and Sudden Times (London, The Harvill Press, 1999). His autobiography is The Bend for Home (Harvill, 1996). His plays include The Long Swim (1988); Curtains (1990); and On Broken Wings (1992). His version of Lorca's Blood Wedding was staged in 1989. His poetry includes Neighbours' Lights (1992); The Ballyconnel Colours (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1995); and The Reed Bed (The Gallery Press, 2001). His awards include the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976); the Tom Gallon Award (1983); and the Encore Award (1995). He is a member of Aosdána , and lives in County Sligo.
Dermot reads on Thursday 26th at 11.45 am and at the Festival Club, 10.00 pm Wednesday 25th.
Peter Denman
Peter Denman's books include a collection of poems, The Poet's Manual, and his poems and translations have been published in periodicals in Ireland, the UK and the US. He is a member of the Department of English at NUI Maynooth, and Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy. A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review, he has written extensively on Irish writing and poetry.
Peter reads at 8 pm onTuesday 24th at 8 pm.
Peter Denman's books include a collection of poems, The Poet's Manual, and
his poems and translations have been published in periodicals in Ireland,
the UK and the US. He is a member of the Department of English at NUI
Maynooth, and Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy. A former editor
of Poetry Ireland Review, he has written extensively on Irish writing and
poetry.
Neil Donnelly
| Neil Donnelly's plays for theatre include The Station Master (Edinburgh, 1974); Upstarts (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, The Peacock stage, 1980); Silver Dollar Boys (Dublin,The Peacock, 1981); Flying Home (The Peacock, 1983); Chalk Farm Blues (The Peacock, 1984); Boys of Summer (Dublin, The Gaeity Theatre, 1985); Blindfold (Dublin, Team Theatre-in-Education, Dublin Theatre Festival 1986 [commissioned by Amnesty International]); Goodbye Curraroe (The Peacock Theatre, 1989); The Reel McCoy (The Peacock, 1989); The Duty Master (1995); Women Without Men (Prosperous, Co Kildare, 1995). His radio plays are Rotunda Blue (BBC Radio 3, 1983); The Loop (RTÉ 1987); and The Big Drop for BBC Radio 4. He has also written for the screen. Four of his theatre plays have been published: The Station Master (London, Corgi Books, 1982); Upstarts (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1981); The Silver Dollar Boys (Co-Op Books 1982), and The Duty Master (USA, Syracuse University Press, 1996, as part of the anthology New Plays from the Abbey Theatre). He has been Writer-in-Association at The Abbey Theatre 1994/95, and is a member of Aosdána . Neil reads at The Festival Club on Monday 23rd at 9.30 pm. and also at 8 pm. on Tuesday 24th. in The Festival Club. |
Anatoly Kudriavitsky
Anatoly (Anthony) Kudryavitsky was born in 1954 in Moscow of a Polish father and half-Irish mother.
Educated at Moscow Medical University, he later studied Irish history and cultural heritage. Having lived in Russia and Germany, he now lives in Dublin and teaches creative writing to aspiring authors from Ireland's minority ethnic communities.
He has
published a number of short stories, seven collections
of Russian poems and two books of poems in English:
Shadow of Time (Goldsmith, 2005) and Morning at Mount Ring (DOGHOUSE Books, 2007).
His anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled A Night in the Nabokov Hotel was published in 2006 by Dedalus Press. In the same year he founded the Irish Haiku Society, of which he is chairman. He is also editor of Shamrock Haiku Society.
Anatoly's haiku have been published in magazines nationally and internationally and have been translated into Japanese and Croatian.
Shizue Ogawa
Shizue Graduated from the master's course of Doshisha Women's College with a degree in English Literature. Specialized in the poetry of the English Romantic poet John Keats.
In 1999 Shizue Ogawa's Japanese-English collection of poems Water - A Soul at Play (I) was published. A CD version appreared in 2000 readings by Shizue Ogawa in Japanese with translator, Donna Tamaki. 2005 saw her second collection of Japanese-English poems, Flames - A Soul at Play (II), with an accompanying CD.
Shizue was chosen to read at the opening ceremony at the Liege International Biennial of Poetry in 2005 and to read at the 2005 EU-Japan Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Brussels.
At present, Shizue Ogawa teaches English at Kansai University. She lives in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, with her husband, a medical doctor.