Culture Night 2012 is Friday, 21st Septembers. I’m looking forward to reading poems from Above Ground Below Ground at Cruachán Aí Heritage Centre in Tulsk http://www.rathcroghan.ie/ . Artist Elaine Leigh and I will present images and poems that relate to the Neolithic sites at Lough Crew in Meath, Brewell Hill and Killeen Cormac in Kildare, and the legends and myths associated with these sites.
A body of work still in the making: the subject matter has
fascinated Elaine for a number of years, I’ve only caught the bug this year, but I've been amazed at what it has taught
me and at the dam-burst of ideas it has ignited, (those last few words seem to have escaped from a war comic c. 1965).
From “ Above Ground
Below Ground”
The sun enters the passage;
I meet him on my way;
he touches my head
like water.
I emerge into day;
in the chamber
the sun dwells a moment
on my earlier impressions.
I return after the day
to elaborate my carving,
my spirals,
my perpetual turning.
On Monday 24th, I’m in Mullingar for the
launching of Mullingar Scribblers, Poems and Stories Volume 5.This fantastic
writer’s group, the Mullingar Scribblers, who meet on Monday nights in the
Annebrook Hotel have produced excellent writing for many years; I hope they get
great support from everyone in Mullingar. I might also suggest that, if you are
local and half interested in writing, you could do a lot worse than call into
one of their sessions.
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