Leona Rennicks was the generous host for last Tuesday night's meeting of the group, An Tobar being closed for January. Hospitality or greetings was the theme which brought in a few unusual contributions but all grist to the mill. The lead off was a poem about Laytown Races which was written in 1937 I believe, but couldn't get a reference on. The author given as R Kielan? Should keep better notes. Schooldays by Willie G. Hodgins was next followed by my own The Lost Roads of South Meath, the only poem I have where there's any kind of hospitality at all even if it's only a collie dog. I followed this up by reciting Comrades by Eva Gore Booth. To Mattie McGoona by Francis Ledwidge was next and To One Who Comes Now and Then by the same author also got a reading. Summer Poem by Alexander Pope was next (Hope I got that right?) followed by The Guest House by Rumi. Cathleen Reilly read her own piece On Hospitality which was followed by Tom French's The Middle Reaches. Carol Owens read Home, her own piece and Walt Whitman got a look in with A Parting Guest and not familiar with the title I'm getting James Whitcomb Riley for the same title? Fluttering Handkerchief by Maurice Harmon was next followed by Welcome, The Ireland Speaks to The Refugees by Jessamine O' Connor who is from or credited to Roscommon but another poem I'm not familiar with. Antoine O' Raifteirí who was one of the last of the travelling bards (1779 - 1835) was read by Danny Cusack, Anois Teach An Earrach - Spring is Now Coming and the night finished off with Gravities by Seamus Heaney. Now that was a night of poetry!
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