♥ NUDE FOR VALENTINE'S DAY - KINDLE OFFER ♥

To celebrate all the lurve and sensuality that Valentine's Day brings, my short story collection Nude is US$2.51 at Amazon.com or GBP£1.53 at Amazon.co.uk for Kindle, today and for the rest of February.

The blurb on Nude: 'The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes that cannot be undone. And at the centre of it all is the unclothed body: in bedrooms, in art, and in and out of love.'

♥ Happy Valentine's Day! ♥

FEEL THE LOVE

Saint Valentine receives a rosary from the Virgin, by David Teniers the 3rd

Happy Valentine's Day!

Jason O'Donnell, a student at the National Learning Centre in Limerick, is looking for submissions for a book of love poems called The Colour Of Love which is his end of course final project.

The poems may be in any style, keeping to the theme of 'love', but must be original and previously unpublished. The book will be published in Limerick later on in the year.

Closing date for submisions is the 31st March 2012.  Submissions, by email only, should be sent to limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com with LOVE in the subject box.  Please also include brief biographical details.

Valentine's Day Reading - Dublin

Heart biccies snapped in New York - yummy!

Poetry Ireland in association with the Irish Writers' Centre will celebrate Valentine's Day with an evening of favourite love poems and prose from Chris Binchy, Juliet Bressan, Mia Gallagher, Paul Grattan, Tom Mathews, Aifric MacAodha, Nessa O'Mahony, Gerard Smyth and Macdara Woods.

Sweet! And it's free admission.

14 February @ 6.30pm at Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square North, D1

For more details contact: T 01 872 1302 E info@writerscentre.ie W writerscentre.ie

VALENTINE'S 'NUDE' GIVEAWAY IN NEW YORK

 

'Dreaming of Heathcliff' - a painting by Sandy Mastroni

Happy Valentine's Day, lovely readers!! I love this day: romance, heart-shaped everythings (pasta! buns!), chocolate coming out my ears, pretty cards, maybe even wee prezzies.

To celebrate all things love-like and sensuous, I'm over at Eimear Ryan's blog in New York here for an interview about my short fiction collection Nude, which is all about the body and art and sensuality.

Eimear is very generously giving away a copy of the book and a gorgeous red mug from the Strand Bookstore. To be in with a chance to win you have to read the interview first (heh heh) then do what she asks. Think literary crushes...

Love Poems in a Dublin Church

Poetry Ireland, Imram and Cois Life present
A special reading of love poetry in Irish on Valentine's Day:

Saturday 14 February @ 10.45am
Whitefriar St Carmelite Church, 56 Aungier St, D2

This sounds lovely, but I will be hotel-bound with my beloved elsewhere... I wouldn't mind only we got engaged in that church, beside the tomb of Saint Valentine, so we belong there. Still, I'm happier not to be travelling too far for a relaxing day of shopping, eating and whatever else!

Filíocht le Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile, agus Colm Breathnach. Amhránaíocht ar an sean-nós le Lorcán Mac Mathúna. Beidh na filí ag léamh rogha dánta ón leabhar Filíocht Ghrá na Gaeilge, curtha in eagar ag Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, agus foilsithe ag Cois Life.

Poetry read by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile and Colm Breathnach. With traditional love songs in Irish sung by Lorcán Mac Mathúna. The poems and songs that will be performed come from the recently published anthology Filíocht Ghrá na Gaeilge/Love Poems in Irish, edited by Ciarán Mac Murchaidh and published by Cois Life.

Reading begins at 10.45am, just prior to 11.00am mass, with additional poems and songs performed during and after mass.

For more information contact
T 087 2912797 E liamog62@mac.com W coislife.ie
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