Members of Wicklow Writers, Friends, and Visitors at the Cosmic Poetry Readings, held in the Cosmic Garden, as part of Wicklow Arts Festival 2010
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Members: Martin Swords - Edward Ryan - Nora Fleming - Eithne Wright - Cait Breathnach - Peter Hickey -Ruth Moore
Carolann Murphy - Ted Voigt - Belinda Walsh - Tricia Holbrook - Mark Corrigan - Richard Hennessy
Members: Martin Swords - Edward Ryan - Nora Fleming - Eithne Wright - Cait Breathnach - Peter Hickey -Ruth Moore
Carolann Murphy - Ted Voigt - Belinda Walsh - Tricia Holbrook - Mark Corrigan - Richard Hennessy
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Wicklow Writers at Wicklow Arts Festival2010
Members of Wicklow Writers, Friends, and Visitors at the Cosmic Poetry Readings, held in the Cosmic Garden, as part of Wicklow Arts Festival 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Wicklow Arts Festival Poetry Events
COSMIC POETRY
A community poetry event in a garden setting
Wicklow Writers bring their poetry and invite you to bring yours ( in words or music ) to the Cosmic Garden.....plus enjoy an elevenses cuppa before blast off....and hey, bring a cosy cushion for the trip!
Date : Sunday 30th May
Time : 11am
Where : Cosmic Garden, An Tairseach Ecology Centre, Dominican Convent
Admission : FREE
In association with Wicklow Writers Group wicklowwriters.blogsot.com & An Tairseach Ecology Centre
POETRY FOR ALL with Nell Regan
Bridge the generational gap and team up with someone from another age group for a joint adventure in creativity !
Date : Saturday 29th May
Time : 12pm
Where : An Tairseach Ecology Centre, Dominican Convent, Wicklow Town
Admission : FREE Places limited, phone 087 6537454 for info or to book a place
Have you ever fancied writing but didn't know where to start? Do you work away but just need an infusion of energy? Or maybe you just have an hour to spare on Saturday!
Either way, come along to this multigenerational writing workshop with award winning poet and experienced teacher Nell Regan. So, come old, come young. Grannies- grab your grandchild, Aunties- nudge your niece....you get the idea. BRING ALONG AN OBJECT FROM YOUR HOME OR GARDEN AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Looking Back
after Patrick Kavanagh.
On College Street in September
I saw him standing there
At a bus stop waiting
Destination – I know not where
I stood, I stared, what should I do?
We were once a pair
Although ours was a brief affair.
In duffle coat and baggy pants
A rucksack on his back
Dishevelled and alone
And I had shared his past.
The lines and rhymes we wrote
I have them still
I asked have I a duty to fulfil?
Crowds walked by unknowing
Autumn leaves rustled past my feet
The railings kept me anchored
Unable to proceed.
A long pause, and then
Love’s altered in those hours and weeks
I’m through with heartache
Walking on,
I turned to look
But he was gone.
Eithne Wright 14/12/’09
On College Street in September
I saw him standing there
At a bus stop waiting
Destination – I know not where
I stood, I stared, what should I do?
We were once a pair
Although ours was a brief affair.
In duffle coat and baggy pants
A rucksack on his back
Dishevelled and alone
And I had shared his past.
The lines and rhymes we wrote
I have them still
I asked have I a duty to fulfil?
Crowds walked by unknowing
Autumn leaves rustled past my feet
The railings kept me anchored
Unable to proceed.
A long pause, and then
Love’s altered in those hours and weeks
I’m through with heartache
Walking on,
I turned to look
But he was gone.
Eithne Wright 14/12/’09
Me!
ME!
When I am me,
as only me can be,
I will see,
truth-filled reality.
When I’m not me,
and pretence fills my place,
Then I am blinded
by false reality.
To see,
or not to see
would seem to rest with me.
Pray I be free,
to face reality,
and me!
Cáit Breathnach
When I am me,
as only me can be,
I will see,
truth-filled reality.
When I’m not me,
and pretence fills my place,
Then I am blinded
by false reality.
To see,
or not to see
would seem to rest with me.
Pray I be free,
to face reality,
and me!
Cáit Breathnach
Monday, November 9, 2009
The Home Place
For Night Light – Rathangan
by Dorothy Smith,
Hidden Histories
13 Sept – 9 Oct 2009
The Home Place
….sure is good to talk to you Brigid…
….you look after the old home place…
….boy we all sure do love that place…
….such memories….
Such memories.
Such memories.
Here am I living in your memories,
in the damp floors,
in the dark parlour where
I alone waked our mam,
in the pokey bedroom
with the flicky street light
The Home place,
where the heart is,
the broken heart
Martin Swords
Wicklow Writers
Poetry Day
October 1st 2009
N81 Late March
For N81
By Dorothy Smith.
Hidden Histories
13 Sept. – 9 Oct. 2009
N81 Late March
two hundred thousand three hundred and twenty five
two hundred thousand three hundred and twenty six
two hundred thousand three hundred and twenty seven
two hundred thousand three hundred and twenty eight
too many snowflakes to count, a confounding softness
traffic peters to nothing, silence rushes in
pale quiet spreads and settles softly on the ground
a white van, swanlike, glides slowly towards Tullow
I cannot count the flakes, I count the footsteps missing in the snow
the Byrne boys in
all of the Powers except Granny Power, still next door
Imelda, who I always liked, with the black baby, gone, somewhere
N81, this feckin’ road leads everywhere and nowhere
taking, always taking, never bringing back
a few hours peaceful, in its coat of bridal white
soon it will revert to lonely emigration black
Martin Swords
September 2009
Wicklow Writers
Poetry Day
October 1st 2009
The Courthouse Arts Centre
Tinahely
Monday, October 5, 2009
All-Ireland Poetry Day October 1st 2009
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Wicklow Writers were invited by The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely to co-operate with Artist Dorothy Smith in a unique celebration of All-Ireland Poetry Day.
Dorothy Smith's exhibition "Hidden Histories" was on view in the Arts Centre 13th Sept. - 9th Oct. and Wicklow Writers were invited to select paintings and write a poem about or inspired by the paintings.
The Writers also held a workshop with the local I.C.A. group on "Poetic Responces to Art" and some of the group joined the writers with their Poems in celebrating Poetry Day.
Wicklow Writers Carol Boland, Edward Ryan and Martin Swords, together with I.C.A. members
enjoyed a wonderful evening of stimulating Art and Poetry. Artist Dorothy Smith said she was moved, enthralled and surprised with the Poetic responses to her work, and all agreed that All-Ireland Poetry Day was well and truly celebrated in the Arts Centre in Tinahely
Pictured: Wicklow Writers Carol Boland and Martin Swords together with Artist Dorothy Smith, centre, beside one of Dorothy's paintings, "Night Light - Rathangan"
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