Release date: Nov. 5, 2002
Contact: Deb Hammacher, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0644 or dhammac@emory.edu

Irish Poet O'Siadhail to Give Reading

WHO: Michael O' Siadhail, award-winning Irish poet

WHAT: Reading from new and collected works in celebration the publication of "The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust" (Time Being Books, 2002)

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13

WHERE: Jones Room, Woodruff Library, 540 Asbury Circle, Emory

COST: Free and open to the public. 404-727-5177

Irish poet Michael O'Siadhail was born in 1947. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Oslo. A full-time writer, he has published 10 collections of poetry. He was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry in 1982 and in 1998 the Marten Toonder prize for literature. His poem suites, "The Naked Flame," "Summerfest" and "Earlsfort Suite," were commissioned and set to music for performance and broadcasting.

His collections of poetry include "The Leap Year" (1978), "Rungs of Time" (1980), "Belonging" (1982), "Springnight" (1983), "The Image Wheel" (1985), "The Chosen Garden" (1990), "Hail! Madam Jazz: New" and "Selected Poems" (Bloodaxe Books,1992), "A Fragile City" (Bloodaxe Books, 1995), "Our Double Time" (Bloodaxe Books, 1998), and "Poems 1975-1995 - Hail! Madam Jazz: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe 1999).

The reading, followed by refreshments, is free and open to the public. Books will be available. Sponsored by Emory's Program in Creative Writing, English Department, Poetry Council, and Department of Religion, the W. B. Yeats Foundation and Emory's Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. For more information, call 404-727-5177.

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