LITERATURE

Linton Kwesi Johnson

LKJ is known and revered as the world's first reggae poet. He has released 13 albums in his thirty year recording history. He has published five collections of his work.

David Bowie described his album FORCES OF VICTORY 'A Carib-Brit contribution to the history of rap. This man writes some of the most moving poetry to be found in popular music. The quite achingly sad SONNY'S LETTAH (ANTI-SUS POEM) is alone worth the price of admission. Although not sung but spoken word set against a superb band, this must be one of the most important reggae records of all time’. www.lkjrecords.com | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson

LKJ reads with special guest local legend Louis Quinlan on Tuesday 30th Oct

PÁDRAIG J. DALY

Pádraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, in 1943. He works in Dublin as an Augustinian priest. His poetry collections from the Dedalus Press are Out of Silence (1993), The Voice of the Hare (1997), The Last Dreamers: New &Selected Poems (1999), The Other Sea (2003) and Clinging tothe Myth (2007). In addition he translates from both the Irish and the Italian, and has published Libretto, from the Italian of Edoardo Sanguineti (1999), Furnace of Love, from the Irish of Tadgh Gaelach O Suilleabháin (2002) and Without Shoe orHorse, from the Irish of Uilliam English (2005).

KERRY HARDIE

Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and grew up in County Down. She now lives in County Kilkenny with her husband, the writer Sean Hardie. Her poems have won many prizes. In 2005 she received the O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award. The Gallery Press publishes her collections A Furious Place (1996), Cry for theHot Belly (2000), The Sky Didn’t Fall (2003) and The SilenceCame Close (2006). She has published two novels, Hannie Bennet’s Winter Marriage (2000) and The Bird Woman (2006).