An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/ February Meeting!

 An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/ February Meeting.

Folks,

February is racing to its conclusion but before it does we have our Poetry for Pleasure on Tuesday 27th at 7.30pm in An Tobar, Ardbraccan.

The suggested guiding theme is Sylvia Plath.

Patricia has kindly given us a  snippet to whet our appetite to explore the poetry of this significant poet.

 Sylvia Plath was an American poet born in 1932 in Massachusetts who is now and has been for decades regarded as a major poet whose work challenges us artistically and psychologically. Her fame and recognition came after her tragic death in 1963 when her husband Ted Hughes discovered the Ariel poems. 

Philip Larkin said of her poems "They exist in a high pitched ecstasy, like nothing else in Literature".

She said herself, "when my sleeping pill wears off I am up at about five, in my study, writing like mad, the blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it" 

Her brilliance won her a Fullbright Scholarship which took her to Cambridge and it was in England that she married Ted Hughes. Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, John Osborne and Philip Larkin and many more literary figures paid homage to Plath and recognize the moral and psychological depths in her work.

 Can I again underline that any poem you wish to share with the group is most welcome.

 Carol and others will update us on their research on a possible visit to the Francis Ledwidge Cottage Museum 

 Looking forward to our poetry session next Tuesday evening 

 Jim.

Tel: 087 967 6728.