Thursday, September 17, 2009

Poets Alive in Blanchardstown Library

Blanchardstown Library is continuing their series of monthly poetry readings entitled Poets Alive in your Local Library this autumn. The next in the series will be on next Thursday 24th September at 7pm when Clairr O'Connor will read from Trick the Lock (2008) which deals with the theme of time and Breast (2004) which deals with breast cancer.

Other writers who will read in the series are: October - Dermot Bolger; November - John F Deane; January - Mary O'Donnell; February - Theo Dorgan; March - Rita Kelly.

As part of Fingal County Libraries Readers' and Writers' Festival Blanchardstown library will host For the Love of Words: A Readers’ and Writers’ Day on Saturday 26th September at 10.00am. More information and to book your place telephone 8905563. Programmed by Vanessa O’ Loughlin, Inkwell Writers Workshops.

Guests include authors, a crime journalist and private investigator, advice on writing and getting published and an opportunity to ask questions. Noelle Harrison will read from her new novel The Adulteress on the day.

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