White House Poetry, 7th July 2010

What: Poetry reading with special guests Anthony Owen and Barry Patterson

When: Wednesday, 7th July 2010, from 9pm

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

At the White House reading in the coming week (July 7th) are visiting poets from Coventry, Anthony Owen and Barry Patterson. Each will read a selection of his work and there will be an open-mic reading sessions to which all comers may and will be encouraged to contribute something.

Antony Owen is from Coventry, England, his first collection of poetry My Father’s Eyes Were Blue was published in May 2009 by Heaventree Press to rave reviews from award winning poets.

In November 2009 Owen arranged a remembrance themed poetry event backed by Falklands Hero Simon Weston OBE which raised over £2,000 and inspired several other creative projects expected to raise up to £10,000 for JJ’s Memorial Fund and Help for Heroes.

Owen is currently working on his second collection of poetry titled The Dreaded Boy and has also been published in Avocado Magazine, Sherb: An Anthology Of River Poems (Heaventree Press), Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus by Gilbert Gigliotti (Entasis Press).

Barry Patterson is a writer and performer living in Coventry. The philosophy of the poems in his debut collection, Nature Mystic (Heaventree, 2009), is in their shared ethos of Dharma and Druidry.

Patterson, both a trained scientist and a spiritual practitioner, uses poetry, passionate and contemporary in its style and, further, with its own formal regulations and restrictions, as a medium – perhaps the best medium – to attempt an expression of the unutterable mystical experiences he has encountered in both religions, and in the natural world.

The poems are his journey, written during several years of exploring this hidden dimension, but Patterson also brings his poetry to life in vivid, musical performances encapsulating flute, bodhran and song.