The Meath Writers' Circle ~ August Meeting 2022!

 The Meath Writers' Circle ~ August Meeting 2022!

The next meeting of the group is on Thursday the 4th of August at 7 pm in Navan Library. Bring a poem or story or just yourself and all are welcome. Hope to see you there!

James Byrne Reads "Aura"

James Byrne reads "Aura"

This was recorded back in August in Navan Library and is James Byrne reading from his recently published book of poetry "Conflux". James is a member of The Small Impact Writers' Group who meet every Wednesday morning in the Library.

"Conflux" by James Byrne

"Conflux" by James Byrne

Book Cover

Described by the author himself as "sometimes funny, often dark, and at times almost prayerful" and I might add perhaps one the best books of rhyming verse published in the last year. James Byrne is a founder member of The Small Impact Writers' Group in Navan and these poems touch on everything from religion to the blues and then some. Rivers of Freedom, Meandering Rivers, Polluted Rivers, Sacred Rivers! It is well worth getting your hands on a copy, though the launch date I'm not sure of, and is I believe to be in the local library in Navan. The lack of a contents page may be somewhat deliberate and leaves you to find out for yourself with the poems gathered in sections of twelve or thirteen though you could argue the toss and perhaps I missed something on a once through. Cost €10. A line or two...

Side B

The claws of a lost cat

Are scratching my brain

And I hear the sad hoot

Of a distant freight train

My transistor radio

Is full of bad news

And rasping my throat

Are these brokendown

Blues.

James Byrne 

Golden Rhymes Launch (Photos)

Photos, launch (Golden Rhymes)

Michael Farry

Tom French

Crowd Scene Launch of "Golden Rhymes"

Sean Reilly

All Ireland Poetry Day Navan Library 2012

All Ireland Poetry Day Navan 2012

Made it into Navan Library last night for the poetry readings having managed to negotiate my way around the different roadworks and arrive only fifteen minutes late and take a few photographs as well! This though is a video of Tom French reading a poem by MacDara Woods and give a listen. One of the features of these events is that you get to hear a lot of poets or poems you wouldn't otherwise come across and last night there was a few. Willie G. Hodgins read one about travelling on trains and a toilet and a light coming on and it never happened in The Tower of Song! Myself I stuck to Philip Larkin and Felix Dennis. Paying safe I know! Some of the photos to be loaded next time.