LAUNCH: The Electron-Ghost Casino

It is our pleasure to present the launch of Randolph Healy’s new poetry collection, The Electron-Ghost Casino, from Miami University Press. Randolph will be joined by guests Ellen Dillon and Trevor Joyce, and all three will read from their work. Join us for an afternoon of poetry in celebration of Randolph’s new collection at 2pm in the first floor café of Books Upstairs on Sunday 7th July.

ABOUT RANDOLPH HEALY:

Randolph Healy was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1956. Looking back in time, his family tree expands, while the population of the planet contracts. Thus he has a vast number of relatives, at various distances. He has written books and his work has appeared in magazines and anthologies. He founded Wild Honey Press in 1997. His average density is slightly less than that of water, which enables him to float when required. He is currently preparing a paper on “Sisyphus and the Importance of Routine.”

ABOUT ELLEN DILLON

Ellen Dillon is a writer and teacher from Limerick. Her latest books are Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel (HVTN Press, 2023) and tentatives (Pamenar Press, 2023). Previous books look at Irish history from the perspective of butter (Butter Intervention, Veer 2, 2022), the teaching life of Stéphane Mallarmé (Morsel May Sleep, Sublunary Editions, 2021), and Stephen Malkmus’s guitar (Sonnets to Malkmus, Sad Press, 2019). Her latest book A Whale Called Milieu has just been shortlisted for the Prototype Prize.

ABOUT TREVOR JOYCE

Trevor Joyce co-founded New Writers’ Press in Dublin in 1967, and the SoundEye Festival in Cork in 1997. Following on his Selected Poems (2014), and Fastness: A Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser (2017), he was awarded the Italo-German N.C. Kaser poetry prize “for resolving political contradiction and new aesthetic possibilities through a precise awareness of form.” He is a member of Aosdána.