Moloch Showcase Night, 31st July

Just a reminder about the Moloch Showcase Night, at Dublin's Winding Stair bookshop on Thursday 31st July.

As well as poetry from Kevin Higgins and Alan Jude Moore, we'll have music from:

The Perfect Consonants
Mark Noonan, Darran Kelly and Aoife McGrane have been writing and playing songs together for the past two years. This summer they've been gigging like nobody's business, and the Moloch night will be their last blast for the season. You can download a couple of their songs at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=83473089
Mark's series of City poems makes an appearance in the current issue of Moloch, while Darran's plays have been hailed by Irish play-writing legend Frank McGuinness as "that rarest of theatrical joys - the real thing!"

and

Stephen Kelly
Stephen Kelly is from Drimnagh, Dublin. He has been published in Watermarks and entertained the masses with wonderful readings in a variety of Dublin venues. His poem 'Ladybird' featured in the first issue of Moloch.

Plus cake and wine! Doors open at 7pm. Admission is free, donations voluntary.

Dublin: Stinging Fly reading

There’ll be a reading from the summer issue of The Stinging Fly on Thursday July 24th in the Winding Stair Bookshop, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 (across from the Hal’penny Bridge).

Grace Wells, the featured poet in the summer issue, will read alongside fiction writers Jennifer Brady and Orlaith O’Sullivan and poets Richard W. Halperin and Paul Perry.

The reading is at 7 p.m — all are welcome.

The Stinging Fly is a Dublin-based magazine of poetry and prose, established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote Irish and international writing. They have a particular interest in encouraging new writers, and in promoting the short story form.

London: Shuffle

The Shuffle in the Studio

26 July, 7.30pm

Valerie Josephs,
Ailbhe Darcy,
Richard O'Brien
and Karen McCarthy

with support from Inua Ellams, Kirsten Irving, Sandeep Parmar and Lin Sagovky

At the Poetry Café, Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)

Moloch Showcase Poets

I promised you more details about the Moloch night on July 31st, so here's who's going to read some poems...

Kevin Higgins will be joining us from Galway. Kevin’s first collection of poems, The Boy With No Face, was published in February 2005. The collection was shortlisted for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. The Boy With No Face was Salmon Poetry’s bestselling book of that year and has recently been reprinted. Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published this year.

In 2000, Kevin was chosen to read his poetry as part of the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. He has also read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, The Bowery Poetry Club in New York, and The Poetry Society in London, among others. In June 2002 he was a finalist in the Dublin Writers' Festival/Rattlebag Poetry Slam. His work has been broadcast on national as well as on local radio.

With his wife Susan, Kevin co-organises the Over The Edge literary events in Galway City.

“His is a committed, engaged poetry, shot through with both humour and melancholy.” – Juliet Wilson, in New Hope International Review.

Alan Jude Moore is a Dubliner whose poetry has been published in a wide range of journals here and abroad, including Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Kestrel (USA), Jacobs Ladder (USA), Pelagos (Italy) – and, of course, Moloch. He took part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions readings in 2001.

Alan’s collection, Black State Cars, was published by Salmon Poetry, and was the recipient of a Salmon Poetry Publication Prize for a first collection.

"What is necessary is to seek new forms and new language to express new ideas and experience. Moore is doing so, and that is what makes Black State Cars an important and essential collection." - Michael S. Begnal, in Poetry Ireland Review

Moloch at the Winding Stair

Exciting news!

Moloch is hosting a night of poetry and shenanigans at the Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin.

It's on Thursday 31st July and it's going to be AWESOME.

We'll have a couple of our finest poets reading, songs from The Perfect Consonants, and more.
So score a big X on your calendars.

More details to follow....

London: Coffee-house poetry at the Troubadour

mon 9^th jun, 8pm at the troubadour

poets on US poets:

brahic, corn, kapos & moore fuller

on

roethke, bishop, stevens & merrill

In Roethke’s centenary year, Coffee-House Poetry invites four contemporary North-American poets to read & discuss four great US poets: Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens (see poem below) & James Merrill.

Contributors: Alfred Corn (b. Bainbridge, Georgia) is the author of nine books of poems including Contradictions (Copper Canyon, 2002) and writes art criticism for Art in America & ARTnews; Martha Kapos (b. New Haven, Connecticut) is assistant poetry editor at Poetry London—My Nights in Cupid’s Palace (Enitharmon, 2003) won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh 1^st collection prize; Canadian-born Beverley Bie Brahic lives in Paris & has translated Apollinaire, Ponge, Derrida & Cixous—her first collection is Against Gravity (Worple, 2005) and her Ponge translations are forthcoming from Faber; Janice Moore Fuller (3^rd collection, Séance, Iris Press, 2007) is Writer-in-Residence & Professor of English at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina.

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Disillusionment of Ten o'Clock

The houses are haunted

By white night-gowns.

None are green,

Or purple with green rings,

Or green with yellow rings,

Or yellow with blue rings.

None of them are strange,

With socks of lace

And beaded ceintures.

People are not going

To dream of baboons and periwinkles.

Only, here and there, an old sailor,

Drunk and asleep in his boots,

Catches tigers

In red weather.

Wallace Stevens (Selected Poems, Faber, 1953)

Dublin: The Perfect Consonants at Naked Lunch

In the last issue of Moloch we published poems by Mark Noonan; Mark also sings songs with The Perfect Consonants.

You can see who they are and listen to a couple of their songs here.

On Wednesday 25th June, The Perfect Consonants will be guest artists at Naked Lunch, Dublin's poetry/music open mic night at the Carnival Bar, Wexford Street. The night kicks off at 8pm; you might just want to be there.