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                        Paul Grattan will be reading as part of the Lunchtime Reading series at the Irish Writers' Centre on Friday, 17th February at 1.05pm.   
                        The Lunchtime Readings will run on Fridays throughout February and March in the   Irish Writers' Centre and are organised in association with Poetry Ireland.  The readings will be alternating between prose and poetry, offering audiences the chance to experience a wide-range of literary talent.   | 
                       
                      
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                        Paul Grattan | 
                       
                      
                        | Paul Grattan was born in   Glasgow, Scotland, in 1971.  He moved to the North of Ireland in 1995,   and gained an MA in Creative Writing at the Poets’ House/Lancaster   University; studying under the late James Simmons. In 2002 The Edinburgh Review published his first collection, The End of Napoleon’s Nose.  His work has appeared in several anthologies including: The New Irish Poets, ed. Selina Guinness (Bloodaxe 2004); Magnetic North, ed. John Brown (Lagan Press 2006); The New North, ed. Chris Agee (Wake Forest 2008); Landing Places,   eds. Eva Bourke & Borbala Farago, (Dedalus 2009).  He lives in   Belfast and is currently researching a PhD on the work of the Scottish   poet and cultural philosopher Kenneth White for the University of   Ulster. Paul's most recent poetry collection Daytime Astronomy was published in 2011 by Salmon Poetry. | 
                       
                      
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                        Lunchtime Readings at the Irish Writers' Centre
                          
                          February 10 - Paul Murray 
                          February 17 - Paul Grattan 
                          February 24 - Shane Connaughton 
                        March 2 - Geraldine Mitchell 
                        
March 9 - Anne Sharpe 
March 16 -  Paul Perry 
March 23 - Mary Costello 
March 30 - Denise Blake                                                   
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