White House Poetry, Mar 3rd 2010

What: Poetry reading with special guest Alan Garvey

When: Wednesday, March 3rd 2010, 9.30pm

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

This week at the White House we bring you the return of Alan Garvey (not unlike Napolean's return from Elba) for the launch of his third and new collection, Terror Háza. The night will also have the regular open-mic session to which all comers may and will be encouraged to contribute. Bring your friends, make them bring poems, etc etc. Admission is free as always and finger food is provided as ever, compliments of the proprietor.

Garvey has published three chapbooks - Whoever (2001), The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2003) and Play Dead (2006) - and two full collections - Herself in Air (2006) and Learning to Crawl (2008). Work of his has also been published in many journals and anthologies in Ireland and Canada.

A graduate of the Creative Writing M.A. at WIT, Garvey is an highly accomplished reader and performer of his work, receiving Travel and Mobility Grants from the Arts Council of Ireland to read at the University of Toronto and at the March Hare Festival, Newfoundland.

Born in Dublin, growing up in Naas, Garvey lives in Carlow with wife Tara and sons Keir and Alastair.

Terror Háza, published by lapwing Press in Belfast, will of course be available for purchase on the night, which the poet will happily sign with personalised messages for buyers.

"Alan Garvey is a meticulous poet whose oeuvre extends both near and far. As the poems in Terror Háza declare, Garvey is aligned with the new committed generation of poets for whom vacuous mythology and the tedium of theologised philosophy has become a shadow in the margins of modern art."

- Richard Montgomery

We hope to see you there for what will surely be a great event. Arrive early to ensure you get good seats.