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Sunday 7th March 2010

Waterloo Press & County Brighton
invite you to celebrate
St Patrick's Day Weekend ...

at the launch of

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

Grace of the Gamblers
A Chantilly Chantey
a 'Waterloo Slims' ballad pamphlet by

Naomi Foyle
illustrated by Peter Griffiths

'... a bravura performance. Foyle captures the swash and buckle of Ireland's greatest sea-faring heroine, [charting] Grace O'Malley's remarkable journey from the dangerous seas off the West Coast of Ireland to the even more treacherous court of Queen Elizabeth I.' - Nessa O'Mahony

'... exuberant, resonant new work... written with bang-up to minute freshness and verve.' -Catherine Smith

Featuring a staged reading of 'Grace of the Gamblers'
by Sister Ignatius Loyala, Sister Sinead, and Sister Philomena
- aka Naomi Foyle, Bernadette Cremin and Bridget Whelan -
with music by The Celtic Ti-grrs
and audio-visuals by Richard Miles

plus sets of live music from

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
AUGHISKY
Irish word for 'water horse'. Horror. Absurdity. Wit. Passion. Anger. Non-industrial. Not very jazz. Brackish water ambush. Drag you down and eat your liver - & The Celtic Ti-grrs

THE CELTIC TI-GRRS

'Music which urges you to move. Restless, buzzing and joyful'- Rosemary Behan

6:30 for 7pm /Sun Mar 21st / £5/4
Iambic Arts Theatre
Entrance on Regent St, North Laine
(Above Bell Book and Candle, Gardner St)
Cash bar - with Guinness!
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This event inaugurates the Waterloo Press
Arts, Performance and New Media Programme
supporting multi-disciplinary work and collaborations
between poets, artists, filmmakers and musicians.
Future titles in this programme include:
b/w by poet and musician Niall McDevitt

The Privilege of Rain by David Swann
with wood-cuts by Clare Dunne


Tuesday 2nd March 2010

Helen J Beal's interview with Waterloo poet John O'Donoghue, author of Brunch Poems and his memoirs Sectioned, delves into how he became a writer and poet, how his memoirs came about and the role of poetry in today's society intermingled with anecdotes and observations of his life.

Poetry isn’t trying to get on the 6 O’Clock News. It owes no allegiance to anyone, least of all a political party. There’s no ‘going off message’ in poetry: poets have always been ‘off message’, which is why I think Plato wanted them banished from ‘The Republic’. Now having said all this, I do think poets have become rather wan, invisible creatures at the moment, content to cultivate their own small two inches of ivory rather than reach out beyond their own rather narrow world.

To read the interview please click here (fourth item from the top)

Waterloo Press are proud to announce that Alan Morrison's volume A Tapestry of Absent Sitters has been named on the top 20 Best Individual Collections of 2009 by Purple Patch.

To see all the results please click here

Waterloo Press is an exciting niche publisher with a proven track record in producing high-quality volumes of poetry. Individual collections too have been praised in Poetry Review, and by its 2002-05 editor Robert Potts and others for sheer beauty of production - as well as the contents! Some say there's been nothing like us since Trigram Press in the 1970s. That's heady, but we're delighted. Waterloo Press is a publishing house originally dependant on its founder and main benefactor, Sonja Ctvrtecka, and a variety of funding sources. In November 2004 and October 2009 Waterloo received major Arts Council Grants.

Our aims are threefold:

to promote regional poets on a national and international basis;

to promote established or long-neglected modern and modernist poets with a broad appeal on the same footing;

and to provide a forum for all those in a specially bound Arts bi-annual journal with the broadest appeal of all (Eratica).

 

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