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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Boyne Berries 20/Launch!

Boyne Berries 20/Launch!


Ken Davis the former editor of The Meath Chronicle launched the above on Thursday the 29th of September in the Castle Arch in Trim and on a once through there's some very interesting material here. Sinéad Mac Devitt in her poem, "Colooney Street, 1904" remembers the boycott of the Jewish community in Limerick and reflects on the change of name and perhaps the irony of that, though I'll have to read up some I think. There is also a fine "Road Poem" here from P.D. Lyons, "Full Moon Not Since Ohio" and there's been one or two of them in former issues if I remember correctly. By some coincidence I was reading Brian Kirk's, "In My Day" while Sandy Dennis was playing on the radio, "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", and there's a  fine poem here by a Carl Boon who lives and works in Turkey called, "Thames". Have to be added to those river poems I guess. In the prose section, "The Stolen Child" by Stephen Wade reflects on what was held in some truth by country folk not so very long ago and perhaps still is and he reminds us that "anything is possible" - in every sense. And that's just some of what's between the pages. The magazine also includes contributions from The Boyne Writers and the meticulous attention to craft and detail is there as usual. The art work on the cover is by Rory O' Sullivan. To purchase a copy link to the right: Boyne Berries.     


Friday, April 1, 2016

Boyne Berries 1916 Book Launch!

Castle Arch Hotel Trim.



Orla Fay and James Lawless

Noel French and Tom French

Órla Ní Shéaghda

Michael Farry


Noel French and Willie G. Hodgins


The Boyne Writers Group launched their 1916 issue last night and some photos above. Tom French who recently won the Lawrence O' Shaughnessy award for poetry did the honours and Orla Fay who herself has been nominated for the Forward Prize is the editor. More info to follow when I get a read through. If you wish to purchase a copy, link to the right on blog, Boyne Berries.




Sunday, March 24, 2013

Launch of Boyne Berries 13 (Photos)

Eamon Cooke reads his poem "Renewal"
Caroline Carey Finn reading "Tag"
Barbara Flood reading "The Christmas Tree"
Michael Farry reading "To Tommy Murray in Heaven"
Written by Tom French.
Rory Ó Sullivan reads "Before the Bell Tolled One"
Orla Fay reading "The Big Freeze"


Tom Dredge reading his poem "The Hat"