In 2012 Dr Philip Coleman organised an all-day reading of
Milton’s Paradise Lost, which
featured among many others, Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney. This year, in
collaboration with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, he is organizing
a full public reading of John Berryman’s The
Dream Songs, to be held in Dublin
in early October. 2014 is the 100th anniversary of John Berryman's birth.
Coleman, a staff-member
of the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin (who has a book on John
Berryman coming out later this year) writes:
“ I am trying to get as many contemporary poets as possible
-- 77 being the ideal number -- to write a Dream Song in honour of Berryman.
While my ultimate aim would be to gather the Songs together in book form I
would like to have a dozen or so ready for possible publication in ‘Poetry
Ireland Review’ in its Autumn 2014 issue……….……. I would like to receive the
poems by the end of March 2014.”
If you have a mind to penning a Dream Song for this project,
Dr Coleman can be contacted at < philip.coleman@tcd.ie>.
