Getting There – A poetry Workshop with John Liddy

Getting There – A Poetry Workshop with John Liddy

Michael Gray Masterclass at The Limerick Writers’ Centre

Attending the Michael Gray Masterclass on Non-Fiction writing from left: Fintan Coughlan, Dominic Taylor (LWC), Siobhan O'Brien, Gerry Galvin, Sheila Killian, Michelle Daly, Michael Gray, Mike Finn (LWC), Philip Munge, Gerry Siney, Laura Coughlan, Derry McGrath, Mark Lloyd (LWC). Seated: Sheila O'Donnell, Noreen Troy and Beth Dennehy.

Masterclass in Non Fiction Writing with Michael Gray

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Michael Gray, the foremost authority on Bob Dylan, will be bringing his acclaimed one man show – Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues to the Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick next Feb 20th 2009. While in Limerick he will be visiting the Limerick Writers Centre in Barrington Street and will hold a two hour Masterclass on writing non fiction. Those interested in attending this event are asked to contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 or email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
More about Michael Gray and the show:
BOB DYLAN & THE POETRY OF THE BLUES                              

An Evening With Writer Michael Gray

This is more a one-man show than a talk. Michael Gray is the world authority on the work of Bob Dylan. The author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (2006 & 2008) and Song & Dance Man III: The Art Of Bob Dylan (2000) – the definitive studies of Dylan’s 48-year body of work – uses a surprising selection of great records and rare footage to show how hugely Dylan has been inspired by the blues and how much of its poetry has been smuggled inside his own.

The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia earned outstanding reviews from fans and the establishment alike: it won the CB Oldman Prize for the year’s outstanding work of research and scholarship from the International Association of Music Libraries, while e-fanzine The Dylan Daily

declared it “the most important Dylan book, bar none.”

Andrew Motion named Song & Dance Man III as one of the best three books of 2000 and it is the classic work in its field. Called ‘endlessly illuminating’ (Rolling Stone) and ‘magnificent’ (Record Collector), it gained 5-star reviews in Q and Uncut. Greil Marcus admired ‘Gray’s reach, tone and acuity’ and called the book’s research ‘amazing’; Christopher Ricks called the book ‘wonderfully comic and serious and sharp’ and ‘monumentally illuminating’. Nine years later it is still in print.

The books may be immense but there’s nothing dry about Michael’s talks. He has been a sell-out on American college campuses and in the UK & Ireland at festivals, theatres and arts centres. In late 2006 he performed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the University of Texas at Austin he drew the largest crowd of any external speaker in the previous two years.

Michael Gray’s events are always lively and spontaneous, witty and acute, using unpredictable slices of loud music to offer a thoroughly entertaining, fresh account of Dylan’s achievement.

Tim Cunningham Poetry Workshop at The Limerick Writers’ Centre

Pictured at the recent Poetry Workshop given by Tim Cunningham at the Limerick Writers’ Centre were: Front – Beth Dennihy, Clare Dollard, David Tobin, Tommy Collins. Back – Dominic Taylor, Gerard Sheehy, Mike Finn, Tim Cunningham, Mark Lloyd, Joe Healy and Michele English.

Poetry Workshop

Aspiring poets  are invited to participate in a Poetry Workshop with poet Tim Cunningham at the Limerick Writers’ Centre, 12 Barrington Street, Limerick Sat 25th Oct 2008 starting at 10.00am and running to 12.00 noon.  Those interested are asked to contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 or email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com Fee €10.00.

Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick in 1942 and educated at Limerick C.B.S. and Birkbeck College, London. He has lived in Limerick, Tipperary, Dublin, Trowbridge, London, Newark (Delaware) and, presently, Billericay. He has published and read widely. His first collection, ‘Don Marcelino’s Daughter’ was published by Peterloo Poets in 2001 and reprinted in 2002 and 2004. His second collection ‘Unequal Thirds’ was published in 2006, again by Peterloo. His new collection, Kyrie, is shortly to be published (Oct 16th) by Revival Press – the imprint of the White House Poets. ‘Kyrie’, is firmly rooted in nineteen fifties’ Ireland – De Valera’s Ireland – a place and time, apparently so distant now, when religion permeated almost every aspect of life.  And it is the lives that are celebrated here, with their pieties, loves, frustrations and hopes, the perennial human condition woven into the sacraments and liturgies of the everyday.  Not quite the Limerick of Angela’s Ashes but nevertheless Tim Cunningham has continued on where Frank Mc Court left off but this time in poetry and verse.

 

 

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New Home For the Limerick Writers’ Centre

The Limerick Writers’ Centre is now based at 12 Barrington Street, Limerick, Ireland.  To contact the centre you can write to the above address or email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com or contact one of the board members by phone at:

Tel: 087 2996409 (Dominic Taylor) 087 6832949 (Mike Finn)

 

 

 

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