Salmon Poetry, in association with Poetry Ireland, presents

the Dublin launch of three collections of poetry

All welcome to attend.

Venue: The Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen's Green West, Dublin 2

Date/Time:
Wednesday 1st October, 6.30pm

Salmon Poetry, in association with Poetry Ireland, presents

An Evening of Poetry

as part of All-Ireland National Poetry Day

Featuring Salmon Poets:

Frank Golden
Knute Skinner
Paul Allen
Caroline Lynch
Pete Mullineaux
Michael Heffernan

Venue: The Courthouse Gallery, Parliament, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

Date/Time:
Thursday 2nd October, 7.30pm

All welcome to attend.

U.S. poet Paul Allen - Book Tour of Ireland

Paul Allen, whose latest collection of poetry, Ground Forces, has just been published by Salmon will be in Ireland to celebrate the publication of the collection with a series of readings and musical performances.

'Long awaited,' doesn't nearly cover the lapse that is redressed with the publication of Paul Allen's Ground Forces. Allen is an American original, whose darker visions are redeemed by the lights assembled here. Here then -- or hear then -- a mighty dose of what Dr. Williams called "the ground sense necessary." And we are all the better for his gifts. Thomas Lynch

* * * * * * * * *

Poetry Reading and Workshop on Poetry and Songwriting

Venue: Town of Books Festival, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
Date/Time: September 26th, 27th, & 28th

* * * * * * * * *

Open Mic, Battle of the Axe, Temple Bar, Dublin
Date/Time: 30th September, 9.30pm
Venue: Battle of the Axe, Temple Bar, Ha'penny Bridge Inn, Dublin

* * * * * * * * *

Official Launch of "Ground Forces", Dublin (in association with Poetry Ireland)
Date/Time: 1st October, 6.30pm
Venue: Unitarian Church, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin

* * * * * * * * *

All-Ireland Poetry Day - Reading, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Date/Time: 2nd October, 7.30pm
Venue: The Courthouse, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

* * * * * * * * *

Reading at Bray Arts Festical
Date/Time: 6th October
Venue: The Heather House Hotel, 8.00pm

* * * * * * * * *

Reading at The White House Poets Series, Limerick
Date/Time: Wednesday 8th October
Venue: The Whitehouse, Limerick

* * * * * * * * *

A Reading with Kevin Higgins
(organised by Over the Edge)

Venue: Sheridan's Wine Bar, Galway
Date/Time: Friday 17th October

* * * * * * * * *

All welcome to attend these events

Salmon presents, as part of the Cuisle Literature Festival,

A Poetry Reading

with

Caroline Lynch - Lost in the Gaeltacht

&

Pete Mullineaux - A Father's Day

Venue: TBA

Date/Time:
Saturday 18th October, 7pm

All welcome to attend.

Launch of GREEN, a new collection of poetry by Patrick Moran

Venue: Monk O'Gorman's, Mitchel Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, 8pm
Date/Time: Friday 24th October, 8pm

** Book Launch **

Seaway: New & Selected Poems
by TODD SWIFT

And a reading by Salmon Poets, Patrick Chapman, Susan Millar DuMars, Kevin Higgins, Pete Mullineaux, & Salmon editor & poet, Jessie Lendennie

Venue: Oxfam Books & Music Shop, 91 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4RB

Date/Time: 4th November, 7pm

** Book Launch **

In association with Poetry Ireland

To Keep the Light Burning: Reflections in times of loss
by Anne Le Marquand Hartigan

Venue: The Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen's Green West, Dublin 2
Date/Time: Thursday 13th November, 6.30pm

More details soon

2008 AWP Conference, New York City, January 31st - February 2nd, 2008

SalmonPoetry is attending the AWP New York City where we will be selling our titles and holding book signings for several of our poets, as follows:

Book Signings

31st Jan:
Phil Fried 11.30 - 12.30
Emily Wall 2.30 - 3.30

1st Feb:
Kevin Higgins 11.30 - 12.30
Patrick Chapman 2.30 - 3.30

2nd Feb:
John Menaghan 11.30 - 12.30

Salmon Table Number 327
Americas Hall I, 3rd floor
Hilton New York
_______________________________________

Reading to Celebrate
Salmon: A Journey in Poetry 1981 - 2007

The Bowery Poetry Club
Saturday 2nd February, 10pm
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
(foot of 1st Street, between Houston & Bleecker 212.614.0505)

Readers: Michael S. Begnal, Simmons Buntin, Patrick Chapman, Susan Millar DuMars, Phil Fried, Paul Genega, John Hildebidle, Kevin Higgins, John Menaghan, Eamonn Wall, Emily Wall

We are delighted to announce the Launch of

In Daily Accord
A new book of Poems by Frank Golden

With a performance for Three Voices:
Frank Golden, Valerie Whelan, John Doorty

And music composed by Andrew Collins

Venue: The Burren College of Art, Newtown, Ballyvaughan, County Clare

Date/Time: Saturday 23rd February, 2008, 7.30pm

Salmon Poetry presents

the launch by Michael Gorman of

Kevin Higgins's second collection of poems,
Time Gentlemen, Please.

All welcome to attend.

The Boy With No Face, Higgins' first collection, was published in 2005.

Venue: Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway
Date: Saturday, March 29th
Time: 1.00 pm
Email: jessie@salmonpoetry.com


“What makes Higgins’ work so fresh is that the objects of his wrath are both contemporary and powerful. He does not kick people when they are down, like the fake satirist, or flog dead horses for a comfortable audience. His targets are doing damage now and he’s out to get them...No, Higgins is not Swift but I still hope they’ll put up a plaque to him in Galway Cathedral – or spray paint one of his poems on a wall, which would probably please him more.” Rory Brennan

“Gifted poets like Kevin Higgins rescue language from the “blatant blather of knaves” in which it is immured, and harness its vitality to tell it like it really is.” Tomás Mac Síomóin

Kevin Higgins lives in Galway, Ireland, where he co-organises the Over The Edge literary events in Galway; is the poetry critic of The Galway Advertiser; and was co-founder of The Burning Bush magazine. Kevin’s first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005. The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. In September it went to its second printing. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please, is published by Salmon. Kevin has read his work at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and at a wide variety of venues and festivals in Britain, France and the United States. He won the 2003 Cuirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam; and was awarded a literary bursary by the Arts Council in 2005. Kevin’s work is discussed in poet-critic Justin Quinn’s Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, due out in April.

Salmon poet Dave Lordan's debut collection, The Boy in the Ring, has been shortlisted for both the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection.

This is the fourth year of the prestigious Irish Times Poetry Now Award, which was won last year by Séamus Heaney for District and Circle. The other four shortlisted titles are: Secular Eden - Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 by Harry Clifton; Out of Breath by Eamon Grennan; Reality Check by Dennis O'Driscoll, and Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney. The winner of the €5,000 award will be announced during the DLR International Poetry Festival, which will take place in Dún Laoghaire from April 3rd-6th.

The judges for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2008 are
Philip Coleman, Sasha Dugdale and William Wall

The Rupert and Eithne Strong Award recognises first collections published in English or Irish by Irish presses or by Irish writers in 2007. This award is made possible by the generous support of the Strong family in memory of the lives and work of Rupert and Eithne Strong. The three other titles nominated for this award are: Preparing for Spring by Nell Regan, Tattoo: Tatú by Nuala Ní Chonchúir, and Complicated Pleasures by Billy Ramsell. The winner of the award will be announced at a reading by the four shortlisted poets on Sunday 6th April as part of 2008 DLR Poetry Now Festival.

For information on tickets, please visit www.poetrynow.ie

Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England, in 1975. He grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. He took an M.A. in English Literature at University College Cork in 1998 and an M.Phil. in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin in 2001. In 2004 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary. The Boy in The Ring, as an unpublished collection, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2005. His work has been translated into Serbo-Croat, Italian and Arabic.

To read more about Dave Lordan's collection, The Boy in the Ring, and to purchase a copy directly from us click HERE

We are delighted to announce the launch of two debut collections of poetry

Venue: The City Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway

Date/Time: Saturday 19th April, 2008, 1pm

With music by pianist Anna Mullarkey

FORCE 12 – LINE-UP ANNOUNCED!

Mayo County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce the exciting line-up for this year’s Force 12 Writers’ Festival which is taking place from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th June in Belmullet, Co. Mayo. Jessie Lendennie will direct the weekend, with a host of well-known writers including Maurice Harmon, Frank Golden, Dave Lordan, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, Lorna Shaugnessy, Kevin Higgins, Susan Millar Du Mars, Joe Woods, Seamus Cashman, Patrick Cotter, Gerald Dawe, Maighread Medbh, Geraldine Mills and Alan Hayes. The weekend offers a wonderful programme of readings and workshops as well as opportunities for unpublished writers to read. Writers groups from all over the country are welcome.

Workshops include: Publishing (Jessie Lendennie & Alan Hayes), Poetry (Anne Hartigan) and Prose (Geraldine Mills). There will also be a lively panel discussion – “Do you have to be a self-promoter to get published?” moderated by Maurice Harmon.
There will be readings throughout the weekend and music on Saturday night in An Chéibh.

This event is organised by Mayo County Council Arts Service. Attendance at all events is free. Places are limited, so it is essential to book by Friday 23rd May. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.  

If you wish to attend any of the events or require further information please contact: Mayo County Council Arts Office at 094 9024444, ext. 7558 & 7560.

Salmon Poetry, in association with Poetry Ireland, presents

the Dublin launch of three collections of poetry

All welcome to attend.

Venue: The Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen's Green West, Dublin 2

Date/Time:
Wednesday 3rd September, 6.30pm

Salmon Poetry, in association with the Science Gallery, presents

the launch by Nicholas Grene of

Catching the Light: Views & Interviews
by Gerald Dawe

All welcome to attend.

Venue: Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Trinity College, Dublin 2

Date/Time:
Wednesday 10th September, 6-8pm

Salmon Poetry, in association with Poetry Ireland, presents

the launch by Joseph Woods of

The Mischievous Boy & other poems
by Maurice Harmon

All welcome to attend.

Venue: The National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Date/Time:
Tuesday 16th September, 6-8pm