The Meath Writers' Circle ~ Trim Library/ April Meeting 2024.
The next meeting of the writers group will take place on Thursday the 4th of April from 6.15 to 8.15 pm and everyone is welcome to attend. Hopefully we can build the group up again after the Covid years so bring a poem or a piece of prose or whatever interests you in the literary scene or just drop in for a while. Hope to see you there.
Michael Farry ~ An Apology for Our Survival/Book Launch.
An Tobar ~ Ardbraccan/Navan
Greetings Poetry
Friends,
Our next Poetry for Pleasure takes place on Tuesday
26th March at 7.30pm in An Tobar,Ardbraccan
The guiding theme is the late Eavan Boland.
But please remember any poem you wish to share is
welcome. Some participants may wish to share a poem they have written. Great,
please feel most welcome.
Enclosed is a brief intoduction to
Eavan Boland that Frances Rocks has kindly prepared for us.
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin but
raised in London. She experienced anti-racism which gave her a keen sense
of her identity. She was one of the most prominent voices in Irish poetry. Her
experiences as a wife and mother of two children influenced her to recognize
the beauty and significance of everyday living. She wrote plainly and
eloquently about being a woman, mother and exile. Boland commented incisively
on contemporary subjects and wrote intensely personal poems about history,
womanhood and relationships. She taught at several colleges in America and was
a professor of English at Stanford University, California.
'Poets are those who ransack
their perishing mind and find pattern and form.' Boland
'Poetry begins where
language starts; in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.' Boland
'Memory, change, loss, the
irrecoverable past – such are the shared conditions of humankind, with which
Boland scrupulously engages.' Anne Stevenson, Poet (1933-2020)
.Looking forward to our March meeting.
Slán go fóill
Jim
087 967 6728
Book Launch ~ Michael Farry!
The Meath Writers' Circle ~ Trim Library!
Last Thursday night's meeting of the group attracted perhaps twenty four in all to our get-together and it will be interesting to see how it develops over the coming months. Chaired by Ciaran with a free writing exercise on the fine line between love and hate there were a number of contributions which combined both. One of the prompts for our next meeting is 'Patience', which I focused in on as I don't have much and the other one escapes me at the moment. The next meeting of our group is on Thursday the 4th of April at 6 pm to 8.15 pm. On a final note I'd like to thank everyone at Trim Library for their assistance and support in accommodating us.
The Meath Writers' Circle ~ March 2024!
Just a reminder that the next meeting of the group will be in Trim Library on this Thursday night coming starting at 6.30 pm and new members are especially welcome. Hope to see you there.
