OCTOBER
Thursday 4 October- 8pm
TALL LIGHTHOUSE AND THE SOUTH - NATIONAL POETRY DAY
with readings from Neil Rollinson, Abi Curtis and
Miceál Kearney, and other poets from Limerick in Ireland plus OPEN MIC.
Komedia Studio Bar, Regent Street, Brighton
£5/£4 (Friends of THE SOUTH £4/£3)
Born in Yorkshire, Neil Rollinson studied Fine Art at Newcastle. Known for his gorgeous eroticism and sensual humour, he has published three full collections: A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001) and Demolition (2007) all published by Jonathan Cape and P.B.S. recommendations. In 1997 he won the National Poetry Competition.
Abi Curtis is a Creative Writing Lecturer for the Centre of Continuing Education at the University of Sussex. She writes and teaches fiction and poetry and has had work published in journals and anthologies by Magma, Seren, Stride, The London Review of Books and Reactions. Her pamphlet, Humbug, was recently published by Tall-Lighthouse and she won an Eric Gregory award for her poetry in 2004.
Miceál Kearney was born in 1980. He lives in the west of Ireland; working on the family run farm. He is the eldest in a family of four. He has been writing poetry since 2001. Winner of the inaugural poetry slam at the Cuisle Limerick International Poetry Festival, Miceál was a featured reader at ‘Over The Edge’ in Galway City Library, September ’06. He has also read at The spirit of the voice festival and was special guest performer at the poetry slam at the Kerry Arts festival in 2007. He was short-listed for the 2007 Cúirt/Over The Edge Showcase. Long-listed for the 2007 Over The Edge New Writer Competition and short-listed for the 2007 Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award. He won the 2007 Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam and will travel to Chicago and Slovenia for a series of readings in the Autumn.
Go to the Tall-Lighthouse website
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