The Meath Writers' Circle ~ November Meeting 2023!
The next meeting of our group is on this Thursday night coming (2nd November) in Navan Library at 7 pm and if you're reading this please come along as we'd like to finalize the details with regard to the 2024 calendar. Sure to be other things though as we also need to plan for a Christmas get-together. Hope to see you all there. All the best. FM.
An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure ~ October 2023!
The sonnet, which derived from the Italian word sonetto, meaning “a little sound or song," is "a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries," The most common—and simplest—type is known as the English or Shakespearean sonnet, but there are several other types.
Before Shakespeare's time, the word sonnet could be applied to any short lyric poem. In Renaissance Italy and then in Elizabethan England, the sonnet became a fixed poetic form, consisting of 14 lines, usually iambic pentameter in English.
Different types of sonnets evolved in the different languages of the poets writing them, with variations in rhyme scheme and metrical pattern. But all sonnets have a two-part thematic structure, containing a problem and solution, question and answer, or proposition and reinterpretation within their 14 lines and a volta, or turn, between the two parts.
Patrick Kavanagh in some of his poems used the sonnet format. Among them are
But as is often said with regard to our group, the above about selecting a sonnet is a suggestion. Please feel free to share any poem that says something to you as we edge towards Winter.
Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday evening.
Leona has kindly agreed to chair our session.
And please feel most welcome to invite anyone else who may be interested in our poetry session.
Best wishes
Jim
087 9676728
25th Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award 2023!
Silver Anniversary Competition.
This competition has a closing date of Sunday the 5th of November, so closing fast. The first prize is the Ledwidge plaque (a keepsake) inscribed with the winner's name plus a cash prize. There are books for Second and Third places and merit certificates for the finalists,
In addition the winner will be invited to read at the annual Francis Ledwidge Commemoration at the National War Memorial Gardens in July 2024.
The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results; entries implies compliance with the rules. Poems must be the competitor's own work and not previously broadcast or published and must not exceed 40 lines of type. Name and address and telephone to be supplied on a separate sheet. Max is 6 poems with an entry fee of €5 per poem; 4 for €15 payable to the Inchicore Ledwidge Society.
Cheque, or Revolut to 0858497531. For online entries copy and paste Email address which is the same for Paypal: 1 omeara@yahoo.co.uk
S.A.E. or Email address for winners' list. Poems will not be returned.
Send to: The 25th Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award 2023, C/o 20, Emmet Crescent. St Vincent Street West Inchicore, Dublin, D08XEY9, Ireland. And good luck!
Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2023!
The above prize has a closing date of Sunday, December 10th and any theme is acceptable. The judges are Mona Arshi and Tom Sleigh and the results are set for Wednesday, February the 28th. The prizes are £2000 for first place, £1100 for second and £500 for third plus 20 commendeds. £6, €7 and $8 are the entry fees per poem but be sure to check all the details at the link given below. And good luck!
Hanna Greally Prize!
The Meath Writers' Circle ~ October Meeting 2023!
The next meeting of the writers' group is on this Thursday night coming at 7 pm in Navan Library and all are welcome to attend. Bring a poem or a story or just drop in for a while for the conversation. Hoping to have a calendar out for Christmas and places are very limited as there are only twelve months in the year, so it will be interesting as to how it turns out, if we make it! Many of our long time members are gone due to illness or other reasons but our group has been around for over thirty years so hopefully there's another few. All the best and see you on the night.
