Poetry for Pleasure/An Tobar, December!

Greetings friends

You are welcome to join us on this Tuesday evening 17th Dec for our last session of the poetry group this year.

Hope the weather will not deter people for joining the fun and the sharing tomorrow evening

Best wishes

jim

PS

You are also welcome to attend a special reflection session on Sunday afternoon 22nd Dec at 3pm in An Tobar

Pull up to the Fire ‘Cois Tine’ 

We know Christmas  is really  a time of sharing, caring and celebrating peace and joy.

 This special evening in An Tobar by the fireside, Cois Tine, provides us with an opportunity to step aside for a while and take  time to nourish the inner spirit.

 The evening will be a time for relaxing the body, quietening the mind, and nourishing the spirit.  

The evening with be a time to share stories, memories, maybe a song, a poem, maybe a piece of scripture, a little silence and if the spirit moves us a wee blast of prayer. 

Sunday afternoon 22^nd December from 3pm to 4.30pm followed a cuppa and some festive fare

Poetry for Pleasure Group December 2019

An Tobar, Ardbraccan, Co Meath

                   

An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/November 2019!

An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/ November 2019!

The theme for last night's gathering in Ardbraccan was on remembrance and at least sixteen people brought poems or readings that touched on some quality of the above. Rose Mawdsley led off with her own piece on the "Famine Walk" and while I suppose everyone is familiar with some aspect of this catastrophe, there were many others that were equally harrowing. Any analysis or account of those years treads more than a little careful. Respects by Jane Clarke, a writer who was originally from Roscommon but now living in Wicklow was next followed by In Memory of my Mother by Patrick Kavanagh. The Oak Tree by Johnny Ray Ryder was followed by Holly by Seamus Heaney. Carol Owens read her own poem In Remembrance of  Leonard Cohen and very good it was, followed by Bereft by John Quinn and this one I hadn't heard before. Last Flight, Last Sight by Eugene Kane was about his brother Camillus who died on the Missions in Kenya and this was followed by Bridie Halton reading a poem by her Uncle Felix which also touched on the subject  of the famine, In Remembrance of the Famine Victims. A Brother's Demise was read by Willie G. Hodgins and Memento to More for Peter and Dee was read by John Curran. Myself I read Comrades by Eva Gore Booth. Above Pesaro 1993 by MacDara Woods was followed by Do You Remember, a beautiful poem by Dunsany poet Myra Lalor. Finally the night finished off with Home by francis Ledwidge, The next meeting is on Tuesday the 17th of December and the theme is off course Christmas. All are welcome! 

An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/ October 2019!

At An Tobar, Ardbraccan

Everybody welcome to our Poetry Group on

Next session Tuesday evening 15^th October at 7.30pm

The guiding theme for October is ‘Equinox or endings or just the time of year’

People can bring a poem that has a special meaning for them  

People can come and listen to others read

The session in good An Tobar style is followed by a cuppa.

 For further information please feel welcome to contact: 

Ø Jim Owens 087 967 6728,  Email: kiltale@eircom.net

Ø Carol Owens  Email: carol.antobarpoetry@gmail.com  

                              Ø Jackie Smyth (An Tobar) 046 9078973                                                                Email: antobarnavan@gmail.com

 An Tobar, Ardbraccan, Co Meath

Suggested donation: €5

An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/September 2019!

An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/ September 2019!

The Autumn season of poetry readings commenced last Tuesday night in Ardbraccan with a theme on "Birds" and brought some interesting contributions that strayed a little perhaps but some great pieces were read. John Quinn's The Blessing of the Bog was the lead off and not one I'd heard before, followed by Eugene Kane reading his own poem My Little Pigs. Blackbird by John Drinkwater was next and Jim Owens read his own piece The Divine Gardener. Staying close to that thread Seamus Heaney's St. Kevin and the Blackbird was followed by Summer and Fall, credited to Anonymous. Many good poems to his name. Creed by Norman Gale was another piece I hadn't come across before and definitely worth a look-see. The Song of the Bee by Nancy Nelson Pendleton was followed by my own Fledgling Accounts and John Sheahan's Autumn and the night finished off with Thomas Hardy's The Darkling Thrush. The next meeting is on Tuesday the 15th of October with a theme on the Equinox or endings or just the time of year. All are welcome.