What: Poetry Reading with Special Guest Gerry Murphy

When: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010, at 9.30pm

Where: The White House Pub, O'Connell Street, Limerick

This Wednesday, Jan 27th, at 9.30pm, the White House bar welcomes guest poet Gerry Murphy to its weekly reading series. Bornin Cork in 1952, Murphy is the author of the collections A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards, Rio de la Plata and All That, The Empty Quarter, Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus, Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend, the translation, Pocket Apocolypse, of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, and, his latest, End of Part One - New & Selected Poems.

He will read a selection of his work and, as always, the night will be complete with an open-mic session for which all are welcome and encouraged to read. Our resident Master of Ceremonies Barney Sheehan will be hosting the night, entry is free and complimentary finger food will be provided. We hope to see you there.

"Murphy's voice is salacious, funny, pithy, angry-making, often verging on the side-of-the-mouth and, dare one add, tender." (Poetry Ireland Review)