An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure!

An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure!

On a theme of ~ New Voices ~ the night began with an intro as to your introduction to poetry in school . Which brought in more than a few interesting insights and thoughts. The first poem read was by Radclyffe Hall, Our Dead which was followed by Feelings on Looking At The Moon, by Bai Juyi, a Chinese poet who lived from (772-846). Kate Tempest's, Ballad of a Hero was followed by Hannah Hodgson's, It's Not My Fault, a meditation on illness. A Prayer of Summer by Max Ehrmann, who would be best known for Desiderata was next, followed by To a Grandmother by Ruairi Somers who has just returned from China. A Wise Old Owl, which was first published by Punch in April 1875 and is an old English nursery rhyme was also read, followed by I married a man from the County Roscommon, or the back of beyond by Gillian Clarke followed by Toilet by Hugo Williams. I read the poem from the film Fracture, The Waiting Place which is an edited down version of a poem by Dr. Seuss, "Oh The Places You'll Go" and couldn't resist slipping in Tears in Rain by Rutger Hauer where he goes off script in The Blade Runner (1982). A piece that has been described as perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history. Sean Reilly finished off the night with a song, I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers. I'm getting a number of credits on that, so will have to chase it up with Sean? The theme for February is Poems of The Heart. Cinema night in An Tobar is Friday January the 25th at 7.30 pm.