Time 04 November · 19:00 - 22:30

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Location The Rugby Tavern
Rugby Street, WC1N 3ES
City of London, United Kingdom

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Created by: Days of Roses

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More info This month's Days of Roses is an Irish special, featuring four poets visiting from Cork:

Billy Ramsell:
Born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. His first poetry collection, Complicated Pleasures, was published by the Dedalus Press, Dublin, in 2007. He has been shortlisted for a Hennessy award and a Strong award. His work has been published in many journals and he has read his work at festivals around the ...world; most recently in Shanghai and in San Francisco. He lives in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company.

http://www.dedaluspress.com/poets/ramsell.html

Sue Cosgrave:
Born in Moscow, Russia. From a very early age she travelled extensively in Africa, Asia, and the Americas deriving much inspiration for her poetry from an unsettled existence and from her multi-ethnic background. In 1997 she settled in Cork where she co-runs a consultancy. A mother of four and a onetime linguist and translator, she recently completed a Creative Writing and Literature Diploma with Distinction at the Open University in the UK, and is now working towards her MA in Creative Writing at The University of Lancaster. Sue has contributed work to such projects as Triantan Theatre Company and Ó Bhéal's 5 Word anthology. She is currently working on her first novel.

Joseph Horgan:
Born in Birmingham of Irish parents and has been living in Ireland since 1999. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award for New Irish Writing and is a past winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His work has appeared on RTE radio and television, he writes a column for The Irish Post and is a regular reviewer for Books Ireland. His first poetry collection, Slipping Letters beneath The Sea, was published in 2008 by Doghouse. A second book, The Song at your Backdoor, an exploration of place and identity, was published in 2010 and recently selected as an RTE Book on One.

http://www.munsterlit.ie/Writer%20pages/Horgan,%20Joseph.html

Paul Casey:
Born in Cork, Ireland in 1968. He is a poet and filmmaker who has lived over half of his life abroad in Europe and Africa, working largely in film, multimedia and teaching. His poems have been published in A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Shanghai Literature), Revival, THE SHOp, Cork Literary Review, Census and Doghouse’s Real Beginnings. He is the founder and organiser of the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry event in Cork city where he lives. A chapbook of his longer poems, It’s Not all Bad, was published by The Heaventree Press in May 2009. In June 2010 he completed a poetry-film version of Ian Duhig’s The Lammas Hireling, which has been accepted for Berlin’s biennial 2010 Zebra International Poetry-Film festival.

http://www.obheal.ie/

alongside some UK based poets with Irish connections

Ellen Cranitch:
http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781903039984

Rory Waterman:
http://www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=194
http://www.wix.com/newwalkmagazine/new-walk-magazine

Siofra McSherry:
http://www.foame.org/Issue7/poems/mcsherry.html

Christopher Horton:
http://www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=148
http://christopherhorton.blogspot.com/

Joe Duggan:
http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/p_joe-duggan.html

plus one or two other things tbc

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