bradshaw booksthe bradshaw literary festival 2013

Welcome to the Bradshaw Literary Festival, celebrating almost 30 years of quality literature!

Thurs 21st Nov - Fri 22nd Nov 2013St. Luke’s Church, St. Luke’s Cross, Cork

Tigh Filí is an interdisciplinary cultural organisation, literature and arts centre and poetry publishing company, committed to promoting access for people from all backgrounds and ages to quality literature. Bradshaw Books, the publishing arm of Tigh Filí, was established in 1985 with the launch of The Box Under the Bed, a collection of prose and poetry by women writers in Cork. The primary aim of Bradshaw Books has always been, to offer sup-port and motivation to emerging writers and poets. Many have gone on to enjoy considerable success and acclaim in their careers after their first publication with Bradshaw. Bradshaw Books current and back list includes early works by a number of prominent names in Irish writing today: Eugene O’Connell, Jean O’Brien, Mary Rose Cal-lan, Michael McCarthy, Ian Wild, Ciarán Ruby, Ann Egan, Daphne Dwyer, Anne Dean, Tony O’Dwyer and John O’Donnell, amongst many others.

One of the most acclaimed successes of Bradshaw Books has been the Cork Literary Review, now in its 15th edition. Over the past decade and a half, it has contained many contributions from noted poets and writers, including Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney, Thomas McCarthy, Frank McGuinness and Jean O’Brien, amongst many others.

This new edition of the Cork Literary Review, one of the few literary publications still in print, is dedicated to the Gathering, the celebration of the Irish diaspora around the world. This anthology features the brightest and best of contemporary Irish writers and poets both at home and abroad. It looks at contemporary Ireland from as many angles as possible; a celebration of where we are and where we hope to be in the future. The visionary, optimistic nature of Art is what this book is about. Included in this edition is a featured article with Dennis O Driscoll (poet and critic), highly regarded employee of the Customs and Excise Department- who died on Christmas Eve. Thomas Keneally, the celebrated Australian author of Schindler’s Ark, is celebrated in an article about his great grandfather the Fenian John Keneally. Maurice Harmon, Editor of Irish University Review, writes about Oregon and the influence of Irish writers on the radical literary movements in San Francisco in the 60s. Thomas McCarthy, Gerry Murphy and the late Tomás Ó Canainn are just a few of the many local writers whose work is celebrated. The emphasis in this year’s Cork Literary Review is on the social aspect of the Diaspora, that conviviality and comradeship for which Ireland is justly famous. The anthology is compiled and edited by poet and critic Eugene O’Connell, a hands on, no frills Editor, whose ‘can do’ philosophy has made the Review an exciting and stimulating forum for Irish and International writing and the Arts.

Cork Literary Review Vol. XVThe Gathering Edition

Eugene O’Connell is the Editor of the Cork Literary Review. Born in Kiskeam in north-west Cork in 1951, he has published three collections of poems, including One Clear Call (Bradshaw) and Diviner (Three Spires Press). His book of translations, Flying Blind (from the Latvian, by Guntar Godins), was published by Southword Editions, as part of the Cork Euro-pean City of Culture translation series in 2005.

LAUNCH Cork Literary Review Vol. XV

FRI 22ND NOV

19:00

Launch of

CORK LITERARY REVIEW VOL. XV

featuring readings by

Matthew Geden Mary Noonan William Wall

Gerry Murphy Sandra Ann Winters

special tribute to Tomás Ó Canainn

musician, poet and friend of Tigh Filí

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18:00

Launch of

Chuck Kruger’s

PUFFS AND GUSTS

20:00

Launch of

Annette Skade’s

THIMBLERIG

***Annette Skade will also announce this year’s winner and runners up

in the 2013Cork Literary Review

Poetry Manuscript Competition

Judged by Joseph Woods of Poetry Ireland

StaffMáire Bradshaw - Managing Director

Bernadette Greenan - Publisher & Events CuratorFidelma Maye - Financial ControllerKathy D’Arcy - Writer-in- Residence

Emer Duane - Projects ManagerEoin Hurley - Eurochild Project Co-Ordinator

Darina Gleeson - Marketing and Events Assistant

Support StaffPatricia Radley

Kelly Warburton Kieran Downing

Board MembersMáire Bradshaw

Eugene O’ConnellMaureen RoeAoife Tierney

Dr. Cathering NajiLiam Ronayne

Kathleen Lynch TDAisling Lions

Special Thanks To...Liz Meaney

Nicki ffrench DavisCivic Trust HouseCork Folk Festival

Miriam LoganEuopean Commission

AZ PrintersHelen Ó Canainn

Programme design by Bernadette Greenan incorporating ‘Image of Crone’ by Miriam Logan

CHUCK KRUGER, a respected writer living on Cape Clear Island in West Cork, has won numerous poetry and short story competitions and is published in both

genres. Puffs and Gusts is his third poetry collection.

PUFFS AND GUSTS, embodies the writer’s love of - and fascination for - the sea.

Of his adopted island he says: ‘Cape’s a poem I read every day, every night. It’s a point of reference, a

metaphor by which I confirm my very being’

ANNETTE SKADE is originally from Manches-ter. She has lived and worked for many years on the

beautiful Beara Peninsula. She is the winner of the 2012 Cork Literary Review Competition 2012.

Thimblerig is her first collection.

Annette Skade’s THIMBLERIG is a strikingly origi-nal first collection. Her poems show a gifted vitality

with regard to language and in turn, her subject matter and even titles are imbued with a

sense of saying something differently.

Born in England, Matthew Geden moved to Kinsale in 1990 and runs a bookstore in Bandon town. He co-founded the SoundEye International Poetry Festival. His poems have appeared in several publications both at home and abroad including Something Beginning with P, Poets of the Millennium, The Backyards of Heaven and Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland. His first full length collection, Swimming to Albania, was published by Bradshaw Books in 2009.

Mary Noonan is a Lecturer in French at University College Cork, where she teaches approaches to French theatre on the BA and MA degrees in French, and on the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies. She also contributes to the MA in Film Studies. She has published widely in the field of contemporary French theatre. The Fado House, her first full collection of poems, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012.

William Wall is a prize-winning author of both fiction and poetry. A full-time writer, he was born in Cork in 1955, where he still lives. He graduated from UCC in philosophy and English. His fourth novel, This Is The Country, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 and shortlisted for The Irish Book Awards and the Young Mind Prize. His work has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Latvian and Dutch. His fiction has been published in Ireland, England and the USA.

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952 where he still lives. He spent one year in a Kibbutz in Israel in 1975/76 and one year at UCC studying English and History. Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards was published in 1985 followed by A Cartoon History of the Spanish Civil War (1991). In 1987 American playwright Roger Gregg produced a stage adaptation of Murphy’s poetry in the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.

Sandra Ann Winters teaches writing and Irish literature in the English Dept at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, USA. She owns a home in Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland, where she spends several months each year reading and writing. Three of her poems have been finalists in the Salem College International Literary Awards in 2009 and 2010. The North Carolina Literary Review nominated her poem ‘Water Signs’ for the 2011 Pushcart Prize.

Special tribute is paid to the late, great Tomás Ó Canainn, musician and long-time friend of Tigh Filí. Tomás (1930 – 15 September 2013[1]) was an Irish Uilleann piper, accordion player, singer, composer and writer. He was a founder of the group Na Fili with fiddler Matt Cranitch and whistle player Tom Barry in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Tim O’Leary will pay tribute on the night along with Aoife Granville and the UCC Trad Society.

Tigh Fili would like to thank the businesses, local to St Lukes and throughout the city, listed throughout this brochure for their generous support of this event –

without which it would not have been possible!

O’Keeffe’s shop, St. Lukes Cross, received the Bridgestone award “Bridgestone Best in Ireland” for our true devotion to good Irish food and the huge selection of locally produced artisan foods on our shelves and in our deli. Being an independent shop means that O'Keeffe's shop can supply a larger of local produce than the multiples and we do this in friendly atmosphere that people like coming back to. Why not drop into O’Keeffe’s and sample our tasty handmade sandwiches.

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Caring for the community

Launch

Eurochild is Bradshaw Books and Tigh Filí’s most significant programme, promoting cultural literacy, integration and dialogue between children from different cultures through art and poetry. The programme culminates each year in the publication of the Eurochild Anthology of Children’s Artwork and Poetry, a multilingual mother-tongue volume comprising the work of 1000 young poets and artists from all over Europe, selected from 10,000 entries.

Eurochild is about making a difference in the lives of children by allowing them to express the deepest parts of themselves and to remove the self-consciousness that can often constrain and ostracise people in the modern world. This kind of self-expression allows children freedom of a kind they have not previously experienced and en-courages them to find a way to understand the importance of art and culture in the world today and in the future.

“A celebration of youthful creativity in Europe… a vivid demonstration of Europe’s capacity to share ideas and feelings”Micheál Martin, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

‘What a wonderful project Eurochild is and what a wonderful work the children produce! I cannot imagine a better way for children from many lands to learn to communicate creatively than a project like this.’

Siobhán Parkinson, CBI Laureate na n-Óg – Laureate for Children’s Literature

THURS 21ST NOV

10:00 am

Eurochild Art and Poetry Workshopfacilitated by

Emer Duane and Danielle Sheehy

13:00 pm

Launch of

Eurochild Art and Poetry Anthology

featuring

Bunscoil Chriost Ri choir Scoil Choilmcille, CBS Rock Band

and

DangerBoy (The Lords of Strut)

Best wishes and every success from Carroll’s Bar and Carry Out Off Licence