Dublin launch of 4 poetry collections, 1 December

Arlen House and Poetry Ireland

warmly invite you to the launch

of four poetry collections

Hidden Places ¦ Scáthán Eile

Deirdre Brennan

Tullamore Train

Neil Donnelly

Aibítir Aoise ¦ Alphabet of an Age

Celia de Fréine

Bound for Home

Nell Regan

Thursday 1 December @ 6.30pm

Unitarian Church

112 St Stephen’s Green West, Dublin 2

RSVP: Alan Hayes, Publisher, Arlen House. Phone 086 8207617; Email: arlenhouse@gmail.com

ÓRFHLAITH FOYLE and NUALA NI CHONCHUIR Showcase Reading

Arlen House is delighted to link with our friends in Salmon Poetry to host a joint launch:   ARLEN HOUSE & SALMON POETRY warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of three beautiful books and enjoy a showcase reading by Órfhlaith Foyle and Nuala Ní Chonchúir who will read from their latest short fiction collections from Arlen House Somewhere in Minnesota & To the World of Men, Welcome (expanded ed.) Nuala will also read from her poetry collection The Juno Charm (Salmon) Wednesday 16 November @ 7.30pm Irish Writers’ Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 RSVP: Alan Hayes, Publisher, ARLEN HOUSE at phone 086 8207617 Email: arlenhouse@gmail.com

Órfhlaith Foyle & Nuala Ní Chonchúir Launch Reading

ARLEN HOUSE warmly invites you to celebrate beautiful books and enjoy a showcase reading by:

Órfhlaith Foyle & Nuala Ní Chonchúir

reading from their short fiction collections

SOMEWHERE IN MINNESOTA and TO THE WORLD OF MEN, WELCOME

Wednesday 16 November @ 7.30pm

Irish Writers’ Centre

Parnell Square

Dublin 1

RSVP: Alan Hayes, Publisher, ARLEN HOUSE at phone 086 8207617; Email: arlenhouse@gmail.com

Honouring JAMES LIDDY at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Honouring James Liddy and His Poetry

The UWM Libraries Archives Department announces the opening of the James Liddy Papers, a collection containing Liddy’s correspondence, literary papers, and general files. We will celebrate the life and works of poet and former UWM Professor James Liddy. Colleagues, former students, and friends will honour James and read some of his poetry.

Thursday 6 October 2011 at 3 p.m.
UWM Golda Meir Library Learning Commons, 2311 E. Hartford Ave, Milwaukee.

http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/email/Liddy2011/

Tom Duddy's THE HIDING PLACE on Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry

Arlen House is delighted to announce that Tom Duddy’s recently published debut poetry collection, The Hiding Place, has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. The Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best first collection published in the UK or Ireland in the preceding year.

Tom Duddy is the only Irish author to make the shortlist this year. The Hiding Place has also recently been shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Award in the UK.

The shortlist for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry:
Tom Duddy, The Hiding Place (Arlen House)
Valerie Duff, To the New World (Salmon Poetry)
Anna Robinson, The Finders of London (Enitharmon Press)
Victor Tapner, Flatlands (Salt Publishing)
Katherine Towers, The Floating Man (Picador)

The winner will be announced on 25 November 2011 at a presentation with John Montague. The Chair of the judges is Professor Harry Clifton, Ireland Chair of Poetry.

The Hiding Place can be purchased from www.Kennys.ie (post-free worldwide), syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu and amazon.com

www.arlenhouse.blogspot.com

Tom Duddy's "THE HIDING PLACE" on Aldeburgh Shortlist

Arlen House is delighted to announce that Tom Duddy's recently published debut poetry collection, The Hiding Place, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Aldeburgh First Collection Award. Tom is the only Irish author and Arlen House the only Irish publisher to make the shortlist.

Shortlist announced for Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2011

From 74 entries, the shortlist for the 2011 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize – one of the most influential and established poetry prizes in the UK – highlights five distinctive new voices as ‘ones-to-watch’ amongst the next generation of poets.

The Poetry Trust announced the shortlist today:

Rachael Boast, Sidereal (Picador)
Tom Duddy, The Hiding Place (Arlen House)
Nancy Gaffield, Tokaido Road (CB Editions)
Ed Reiss, Your Sort (Smith Doorstop)
Jacqueline Saphra, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (Flipped Eye Publishing Ltd)

The Hiding Place can be purchased from Kennys.ie, syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu and amazon.com

Nuala Ní Chonchúir “TO THE WORLD OF MEN, WELCOME” expanded

Following Monday's preview (below) of the front cover of Órfhlaith Foyle’s debut short story collection, Somewhere in Minnesota, here's a sneak preview of the expanded and enlarged paperback edition of Nuala's 2nd short fiction collection, To the World of Men, Welcome, which will be available shortly.

The artwork is by Ireland's most famous woman artist, Pauline Bewick, and is entitled "Lovers and Feathers". See www.paulinebewick.ie