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Edward Denniston is a native of Longford and has lived in Waterford since 1980. He teaches English and Drama at Newtown School and is a participant in Poetry Ireland’s Writers-in-Schools scheme. He facilitates both creative writing and drama workshops for adults and young people. His loves are: ‘dissenters, ambling and cycling without intent, weather-watching and landscape.’ He has published three books: The Point of Singing (Abbey Press 1999), Interacting – a book of drama scripts (Russell House 2007) and The Scale Of Things (Salmon Poetry 2013). He also has an ebook entitled Eskimo Advice (Rectory Press & Hayrake Press 2007)
For more information visit edwarddenniston.com
#1 by David Richard Coe on March 11, 2014 - 4:42 am
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So nice to hear Mr. D’s voice again after all these years, he was the most influential teacher I have ever had. He started me dreaming, thinking and realising, that I could be myself in a world that wanted to put me in a box of conformist apathy. I always looked forward to his classes in school and now, looking back, I realise that he appreciated and nurtured my thinking, for which I will always be thankful. He is much more than a teacher, he is an educator, and I am thankful for the years I had the priviledge of attending his classes in Newtown. I have seen Mr D. in recent years on his bike, cycling along the Dunmore Road, and have many many fond memories of him as a teacher, an educator, a poet and as a very nice human being.