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111108 Cork Literary Review

	The Cork Literary Review, Tuesday, November 8th Listen to the event... Autumn 2011 sees the launch of the Cork Literary Review Volume XIV, showcasing poetry from writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Volume XIV of this seminal Irish review, edited by Eugene O'Connell, is a deluxe 400-page hardback edition, celebrating 25 years of Bradshaw Books Publishing in Ireland. Highlights from Volume XIV include interviews with the Irish Ambassador, James J. Sharkey, a childhood friend of Seamus Heaney; and Liadain O'Donovan, the daughter of Frank O'Connor. The review will also feature the inaugural American section, edited and introduced by the poet Brian Turner. Since it first appeared in 1994, the Cork Literary Review (Bradshaw Books) has evolved from a slim anthology of winning competition entries, into a widely respected, high-end literary journal. Down through the years, it has featured contributions from a host of noted Irish poets and writers, among them, Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, Thomas McCarthy, Frank McGuinness, Jean O'Brien, Ian Wild, Brian Turner, Medbh McGuckian, Sheila O'Hagan, Eugene O'Connell, William Wall, John McAuliffe, Mary Rose Callan and Roderick Ford. Participating at the event:
	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 European City of Culture translation series in 2005. His work has been read internationally, most recently at the Shanghai Expo 2010 as part of the Munster Literature Centre / Shanghai Writers literature exchange. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, including The Irish Times. He is currently working on a book of memoirs, entitled A Far Country, and a new poetry collection.
	Brian Turner, born 1967, is an American poet and the winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, (Alice James Books) the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War . His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize is Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, 2010).
	Joseph Woods (born 1966) is an Irish poet and Director of Poetry Ireland since 2001. His two collections, Sailing to Hokkaido (2001) and Bearings (2005), are published by the Worple Press, UK. For his first book, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2000. He co-edited Our Shared Japan (Dedalus Press, 2007) an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry concerning Japan. He has read widely, including at the Dublin Writers' Festival, Sahitya Akademi of Letters , New Delhi, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires , IASIL Japan International Conference, Kobe and the International Poetry Festival of Medellín.