Events
Performing Poetry Project
James Joyce Cultural Centre // Tuesday, October 14 // 6:30 PM
€5 / €4
Featuring poets Gavin Selerie and Nerys Williams
with an introduction and discussion by Dr. Philip Coleman (TCD)
Gavin Selerie was born in London, where he still lives. He taught at Birkbeck, University of London for many years. His books include Azimuth (1984), Roxy (1996) and Le Fanu’s Ghost (2006)—all long sequences with linked units. Le Fanu’s Ghost combines the imaginative and the documentary, layering voices through time. It contains fresh biographical information about members of the Le Fanu family and other Irish writers. A Selected Poems, Music’s Duel, was published in 2009. Selerie’s work has appeared in anthologies such as The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British & Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008). Hariot Double (forthcoming) engages with early English settlement of the New World and Elizabethan plantation of Munster.
An in-depth discussion about Selerie’s work is available here.
Nerys Williams is originally from Pen-Y-Bont, Carmarthen in West Wales. She is a native Welsh speaker and has worked as a Sound Librarian at BBC Wales. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar's Award at UC Berkeley, and her collection, Sound Archive, was published by Seren in 2011.
A winner of the Ted McNulty Poetry Prize, she lectures in American Literature at University College, Dublin. She has published poems and critical essays widely and is the author of A Guide to Contemporary Poetry as well as study of contemporary American poetry, Reading Error.
[In Sound Archive] "...a certain other-worldiness combines well with a vigorous realism to tease the reader into putting two and more than that together to perceive something rare and beautiful." -- Poetry Review
Performing Poetry Project
The Joinery // Thursday, June 19 // 7 PM
very special musical guests
The Dublin launch of Brooklyn-based poet Quincy R. Lehr's latest book, Heimat
Performances by Quincy R. Lehr & Kit Fryatt
with music from
Mondegreen
featuring Georgia Cusack, Anna Clifford & Tom Morris
BYOB
Facebook Event / The Joinery
THE BIG BOOK
A new audio documentary takes a fresh look at James Joyce’s Ulysses and Bloomsday
New Dublin Press is happy to announce the imminent arrival of its latest project, THE BIG BOOK. This audio documentary examines the impact of James Joyce’s Ulysses and its annual worldwide celebration, Bloomsday, which takes place on June 16 each year. Listeners will be introduced to this unique literary event as we do away with the reputation that has too long intimidated readers and scared them away from ‘The Big Book’!
We hope to open up Joyce’s masterpiece and give readers confidence and excitement about diving in head first, enjoying what is perhaps the most influential novel of the 20th Century.
Listeners will be in very good company! Contributors to the documentary include:
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Senator David Norris
John Banville, Author
Myles Dungan, Historian and Broadcaster
Gerald Dawe, Poet and Director of The Oscar Wilde Centre Dublin
Dr Sam Slote, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin
Robert Sheehan, Actor
Les Doherty, Actor
Roisin Agnew, Actor and Journalist
and featuring music from This Is How We Fly
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There will be an event to launch THE BIG BOOK on Friday June 6th in the James Joyce Centre, Dublin at 7 pm. This will include an introduction by poet Gerald Dawe, Director of The Oscar Wilde Centre, a listening preview of the documentary by an open fire and will be followed by a wine reception. Places are very limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Places can be reserved FREE OF CHARGE by emailing neil@newdublinpress.org.
New Dublin Press
at
The Joinery
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featuring
Twin Headed Wolf
Nerys Williams
Jonathan C. Creasy
Sadhbh Burt Fitzgerald
Davy Kehoe (Arrow-shower)
Anna Clifford
8 EURO at the door
BYOB
Performing Poetry Project
at
The Back Loft
PHOTOS BY JONELLE MANNION
The Back Loft Gallery, St Augustine St, Dublin 8
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featuring
Kimberly Campanello
Nerys Williams
Maurice Scully
&
New Music by J.C. Creasy
New Dublin Press
at
Upstart Granby Park
Granby Park, the corner of Dominick St & Parnell St, Dublin 1
FREE ADMISSION, SNACKS, & DRY WICKLOW CIDER!
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Featuring
Poet Rory McArdle, with actors performing sections from his voice-play in progress, On Taylor’s Road.
Novelist Sam Coll, performing sections from his forthcoming book, The Abode of Fancy.
& very special musical guests
Imogen Gunner Trio
(with Quentin Vestur and Brian Fleming)
Leafzang Duo
Performing Poetry Project
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SITEATION
Sunday, July 7th, 3:00pm
SITEATION (Old Little Green Street Gallery), 12 Little Britain Street, off Capel Street, Dublin 1
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PPP is Back! Join us Sunday, July 7th at 3:00 PM for more poetry, music, food, and drink. (BYOB!)
https://www.facebook.com/events/263372697138121/
FEATURING
Kit Fryatt
Kimberly Campanello
Rory McArdle
Annemarie Ni Churreain
& music from
Wayside Singers
Leafzang Duo
5 EURO
Performing Poetry Project
at
The Back Loft
Sunday, April 14th 3:00 – 5:00 PM
The Back Loft Gallery, St. Augustine Street, Dublin 8
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NERYS WILLIAMS // DROPPIN THE ACT (DAVE LORDAN AND KARL PARKINSON
// KATIE HOLMES
with music from
SIGURDSON // CICADA
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FREE ADMISSION, TICKET REQUIRED
For tickets, email editor@newdublinpress.com with name and number of tickets (max 2 per person)
Organism
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The Joinery
23rd March 2013
The Joinery, 6 Rosemount Terrace, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
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Join us at the JOINERY! We are presenting a very special gig of mu
sic, poetry & some groovin' DJ sets, with proceeds going to the Joinery Fundit campaign. The Joinery is a vital creative arts space in Stoneybatter. Let's do all we can to help them keep up their work!
CREASY // KEHOE // COMERFORD // DONOHUE
Patrick Groenland (Very special solo set)
Poet Annemarie Ni Churreain
with DJ sets by Dennis Cassidy of BUTTER & Mixtapes from the Underground
Saturday March 23rd, THE JOINERY, Stoneybatter
8pm
Performing Poetry Project
7th February 2013
James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1
KIT FRYATT // J. C. CREASY // RORY MCARDLE
PATRICK GROENLAND // DONAL FLYNN
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The Performing Poetry Project aims to bring poets whose work is necessarily performed together with a sympathetic audience for their poems. Our premise is simple: certain kinds of poetry demand an auditory means of expression, as the music of the language exists as breath on air, not as dead words in type. Just as the orchestra brings a musical score by Brahms to life, so must the poem be animated by performance. Or, as jazzman Thelonious Monk put it: ‘if you can’t hear it, ain’t no use tellin’ you about it.’
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"The Performing Poetry Project is a wonderful enterprise. Dublin’s poets – and audiences for poetry – need the kind of forum that Jonathan Creasy and Eimear Fallon are striving to create, one which embraces experimentation, encourages writers to showcase their work, and insists that poets do not need to choose between the torpor of the institution and the anything-goes raving that constitutes your best chance of winning at your average poetry slam. By taking both the writerly and performative aspects of poetry seriously, PPP is embracing the possibility of bridging divisions between the academy and a wider public."
Dr. Alex Runchman, Trinity College Dublin