The Meath Writers' Circle ~ February Meeting 2024!

 The Meath Writers' Circle ~ February Meeting 2024!

The next meeting of our group takes place on this Thursday night coming, the first of February at 7 pm in Navan Library and hope to see you there. The group has been going now for over thirty years and it would be nice to keep it going for a few more. Bring yourself, bring a friend, a piece of poetry or prose, yours or something by a favourite writer. All contributions are welcome. Take care and although it's late, enjoy the new year.

Tribute to Melanie Safka: A Voice That Touched Hearts | Now Spinning Mag...

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday!

Phil Aston's tribute says it all and a visit to Youtube to read the comments is a must." Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma."

Melanie Safka:  February 3rd 1947 ~ January 23 rd 2024. 

An Tobar ~ Ardbraccan/ Poetry for Pleasure !

An Tobar ~ Ardbraccan/ Poetry for Pleasure, January 2024

 Greetings and happy New Year

Our first poetry session of 2024 will be on Tuesday 23 January at 7.30pm in An Tobar, Ardbraccan.

The suggested themes are New Beginnings or Fresh Start

But as you may know any poem you wish to share is most welcome.

Please feel welcome to encourage any interested person to come along.

Can someone remind Tom Flanagan as I don't have an email address for him

Looking forward to our session on Tuesday evening.

Hopefully Storm Isha will be well gone by then!

Best wishes 

Jim Owens

087 9676728

* Postponed until next Tuesday due to Storm Jocelyn!

Hope is The Thing With Feathers - Emily Dickinson (Powerful Life Poetry)

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers ~ Emily Dickinson

Something for the year ahead though there seems to be very little to be hopeful about given the number of wars about. Emily Dickinson was perhaps America's greatest poet though I'm sure many would argue that and for a few others. Birds of prey seem to be much more the common variety these days or perhaps they always were. Edmund Burke once remarked that 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men nothing' and I'll leave you to work that one out for yourselves! Loaded by RedFrost Motivation and with thanks. To youtube for the comments.

Word Skin ~ Review!

 Word Skin ~ Review!

Salmon Poetry

Word Skin is a series of observations or reflections that dip in and out of what is both the personal and classical myth. A sometimes dreamlike journey whose striking feature is the exquisite language used to describe the experience. Her descriptive writing is excellent at best and will have you reaching for other reference to tease out the layers that are beneath. A once through for anything of review does not do it justice and everyone will have their own favourite or favourites but the poem I came back to was 'The Natural Order' and there is a great kindness here though the Welsh poet might argue that a bit.

This is Orla's first collection of poems though she's had a number of chapbooks published and was the editor of 'Boyne Berries' magazine and now edits her own online magazine 'Drawn to the Light Press'. Hard copies are available as well. She is widely published and is the winner of many awards. Retails at €12 and was launched by Michael Farry.

http://www.salmonpoetry.com 

Cathalbui Poetry Competition 2024!

 Cathalbui Poetry competition 2024

Cathalbui Poetry competition 2024

 1 Maximum 20 lines 

2 Please paste your unpublished poem into the email 

3 Send to: belcoopoet@gmail.com

4 Closing date: 17 March 2024

Results announced at Macnean Hedge School 6 July 2024

Patrick Harte poetry prize and plaque; 1st £100: 2nd £60 3rd £40

* From the Poetry Ireland website