Cois Tine ~ An Tobar/Ardbraccan.

Cois Tine - An Tobar/Ardbraccan.  

A time of story, poetry and maybe song in An Tobar, Ardbraccan at 4 pm on Sunday 10th Dec.

 All most welcome!

Best wishes 

Jim Owens
Kiltale.

Tel: 087 967 6728

BullsArse ~ Navan Writing Group!

The above group are based in Navan, County Meath and were contributors to the recent Trim Poetry Festival. A chance to listen to some of their members and their poems. Videos from the Festival website and from youtube and with congratulations to Michael and Orla for the work done with regard to presentation. Will dip into a few more of them. A chance to listen at your leisure! 

An Tobar/Poetry for Pleasure ~ June 2018!

An Tobar/Poetry for Pleasure ~ June 2018!

The theme for last Tuesday's meeting was, "Darkness into Light" and it made for an interesting evening with some interesting choices. The group meet on the third Tuesday of each month at 7.30 pm and everyone is welcome. Jim Owens is the coordinator and can be contacted at 087 967 6728. The theme for next month's meeting is "Travelling" or some aspect of. And there is I believe a break for the month of August. 

Poems that were read on Tuesday night included Patrick Kavanagh's Shancoduff, Edith Sitwell's Canticle 111, Kevin Dwane's The Precious Little Things, Willie G. Hodgins Darkness into Light, Frank Murphy's The Marginal Line and Tick Tock, Robert Service's The Wonderer, Macdara Wood's The Welder Embracing Silence and Kavanagh in Umbria, Brendan Kennelly's A Glimpse of Starlings, E.E. Cummings, White Guardians of the Universe of Sleep and Emma Robson's Motherhood for Slackers.

Meath County Council & Francis Ledwidge

Meath County Council & Francis Ledwidge

Last night in the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan saw the joint launch of the Francis Ledwidge Centenary Programme 2017 and Dermot Bolger's Francis Ledwidge, Selected Poems published by New Island Press in association with Meath County Council. It was also the last night of an exhibition that featured the poetry of Gerard Smyth and the paintings of Sean Mc Sweeney, aptly titled, The Yellow River, as it unites the personal histories of both men. The Yellow River is a tributary of the Blackwater, (Kells) which merges with the river Boyne in Navan. With regard to Ledwidge there are any number of events planned over the coming months in celebration of his life including Poetry Day Ireland - Launch of new Meath County Council Francis Ledwidge Creative Writing Award on April the 27th. The poetry of Francis Ledwidge, Dermot Bolger, Gerard Smyth and Michael Farry can be accessed over on youtube.

Michael Farry

Dermot Bolger

Francis Ledwidge
(Google Images)

Remembering Ledwidge!

Remembering Ledwidge!

There will be an evening of  history, story, poetry and song on Wednesday the 15th of March 2017 at 8 pm in St Mary's Church of Ireland, Navan. organized by The Navan Shamrock Festival and The Navan Singing Circle. So one to mark for your diary. Francis Ledwidge was an Irish war poet who was killed at the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaelle) on the 31st of July 1917 and was from Slane, County Meath.  

From Irish War Memorials
Google Images

"Poetry for Pleasure Group"/An Tobar.

"Poetry for Pleasure Group"

Jim Owens and Danny Cusack

The Poetry for Pleasure Group will meet on the third Tuesday of every month in An Tobar, Ardbraccan, County Meath and people are welcome to come along and read a poem or just listen to the choice of the other participants. Last night was the initial get together and about sixteen turned out for what was an interesting mix with poetry from Kavanagh to Montague to Kennelly and pieces where the author is unknown. It was a thought-provoking evening or get together with everything from recitation to modern prose in what are very comfortable surrounds. The group organizers are Stephanie O' Brien, Danny Cusack and Jim Owens and the next meeting is on Tuesday the 21st of February at 7.30pm. For further information contact Jim Owens at 087 967 6728 or Jackie Smyth (An Tobar) at 046 907 8973. 

"Laughing Streams" by James Byrne

"Laughing Streams" by James Byrne

 A poem from his recent collection "Conflux" read by James Byrne at Navan Library on Wednesday last..