Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2024!
This one has a closing date that is fast approaching and the deadline for entries is Sunday the 5th of May, online or by post. A number of local writers have featured in this and the winner will be invited to read at the outdoor event in Pallas on Sunday the 2nd of June. €10 for three entries with full details on their website at -
http://olivergoldsmithfestival.com
Be sure to read all the rules and conditions for entry.
Statue at Pallas 2017
The Meath Writers' Circle ~ Trim Library/ April Meeting 2024.
The next meeting of the writers group will take place on Thursday the 4th of April from 6.15 to 8.15 pm and everyone is welcome to attend. Hopefully we can build the group up again after the Covid years so bring a poem or a piece of prose or whatever interests you in the literary scene or just drop in for a while. Hope to see you there.
Michael Farry ~ An Apology for Our Survival/Book Launch.
An Tobar ~ Ardbraccan/Navan
Greetings Poetry
Friends,
Our next Poetry for Pleasure takes place on Tuesday
26th March at 7.30pm in An Tobar,Ardbraccan
The guiding theme is the late Eavan Boland.
But please remember any poem you wish to share is
welcome. Some participants may wish to share a poem they have written. Great,
please feel most welcome.
Enclosed is a brief intoduction to
Eavan Boland that Frances Rocks has kindly prepared for us.
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin but
raised in London. She experienced anti-racism which gave her a keen sense
of her identity. She was one of the most prominent voices in Irish poetry. Her
experiences as a wife and mother of two children influenced her to recognize
the beauty and significance of everyday living. She wrote plainly and
eloquently about being a woman, mother and exile. Boland commented incisively
on contemporary subjects and wrote intensely personal poems about history,
womanhood and relationships. She taught at several colleges in America and was
a professor of English at Stanford University, California.
'Poets are those who ransack
their perishing mind and find pattern and form.' Boland
'Poetry begins where
language starts; in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.' Boland
'Memory, change, loss, the
irrecoverable past – such are the shared conditions of humankind, with which
Boland scrupulously engages.' Anne Stevenson, Poet (1933-2020)
.Looking forward to our March meeting.
Slán go fóill
Jim
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