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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Audio: Michael reads 2 poems from his new collection, 'The Sound of Water Searching'.

To The Slaughterhouse, Klimt Moment
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Audio: Michael reads 2 poems from his new collection, 'The Sound of Water Searching'.

To The Slaughterhouse, Klimt Moment

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Buy Michael's new collection 'The Sound of Water Searching'

Buy Michael's new collection 'The Sound of Water Searching'
Contact me through the link above. The collection costs €12/£10 plus postage, €2.50 within the Republic of Ireland €4.50 within Europe. Alternatively you can contact Lawing Publications who also offer a pdf version. To see their purchasing details click on the image.

The Roscommon Anthology

The Roscommon Anthology
If you are interested in buying the anthology drop me a line at mmodros@gmail.com

The Roscommon Anthology

Edited by Michael and John O'Dea, The Roscommon Anthology features writers of international standing such as Oliver Goldsmith, John McGahern, Bithia Mary Croker, Douglas Hyde and William Wilde. And not all historic: Booker nominee Brian O'Doherty, John Waters and Brian Leyden also feature. Beautifully illustrated by artists associated with the county and accompanied by a literary map that is itself a work of art, The Roscommon Anthology is a book to be savoured.

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  • Debussy
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  • Dirty politics
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  • do we
  • Donald Trump
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  • For All Mankind
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  • Galicia
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  • Iceland
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  • Impermanence of life
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  • Impressionism
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  • in hospital
  • In memory of Geraldine Kenny
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  • In praise of old age
  • In Rathmines
  • In the Space Between
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  • Indoctrination
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  • Interference
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  • IRA
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  • Iron mountain Literary Festiva
  • Island Monastery
  • isolation
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  • Israeli bombing of Gaza a genocidea stain on all countries with influence
  • it suits us to minimize the discrepancy between us and god
  • it's later than you think
  • IVAW
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  • jazz
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  • joy of mottled light
  • July 2016
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  • Kathleen Lynn
  • Kevin Hora
  • Khmer Rouge death camp
  • Kila
  • Kilcar
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  • Kilgefin Graveyard
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  • Killargue holy well
  • killing innocents
  • Kilmainham
  • Kilmore
  • Kingship
  • Klimt
  • Klimt Moment
  • Klimt's 'The Kiss'
  • Knockvicar
  • Knowth
  • Knowth Kerbstones
  • Kodi Mullins
  • l marvel at the number of dead shellfish on Rossnowlagh Beach
  • Lakes and Legends Tourism Group
  • Lamentation over the dead Christ
  • landscape and light
  • landscape moulds person
  • Lang Lang
  • language used by crows
  • Lapwing Publications
  • lark pie
  • lark song
  • Las Meninas
  • Lau
  • lazy snowflakes falling
  • Leaves of Grass
  • Leaving by boat
  • leaving happiness
  • leaving Ireland
  • Leaving the planet as we found it
  • lemur
  • Leonard Epstein
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • Lesende
  • lessons of history
  • Li Po
  • Li Po (Li Bae)
  • libel cases
  • lies and dictatorship
  • life
  • Lifetime
  • lighthouses
  • Limestone lan dscape of western Ireland
  • Linda Tirado
  • lios
  • listening to colour
  • listening to traditional music in the west of ireland
  • literary
  • Literary competition
  • literary event
  • lives lived and living
  • living and dying
  • Living fluids
  • living life to the full
  • Living Planet Report.
  • lobby members of government
  • Local Hands Ballyshannon
  • local history
  • Loch Con Aortha
  • London
  • London underground
  • loneliness
  • lonely
  • looking for the right words to be the last words
  • Lorcán Mac Mathúna
  • loss
  • loss of death
  • loss of species
  • lost child
  • lost friendships
  • lost heritage
  • lost love
  • lost memories
  • Lough Derravaragh
  • Lough Eske
  • Loughcrew
  • love
  • love and belonging
  • love letter
  • love poem
  • love poem; irish poetry
  • Love poems
  • lovers
  • loving parents and grandparents
  • low standards in high places
  • Lowerymore River
  • Lubeck
  • Lucas Cranach
  • Lumiere
  • Lynn Saoirse
  • madness of humanity
  • Madonna of thne Clouds
  • Maggie Breheny
  • Making Music
  • Man and Nature
  • Manet
  • Manipulation of Mr Floyd's murder
  • Mantegna
  • Margraten
  • Martello
  • Martin Hayes
  • Martin Hayes playing fiddle
  • marvel of life
  • mask wearing and social distancing
  • Maskers
  • masterclass
  • Matthew Gammon
  • Maumtrasna
  • May weekend
  • Mayo
  • MC Escher
  • medeval saint
  • media coverage of human disasters: immoral or not?
  • medieval tale
  • meditating on death
  • meeting across perspex screen
  • megalithic Art
  • Megalithic circles
  • Megalithic remains
  • Megalithic site Co. Sligo
  • megalthic stone circle
  • memories
  • memories fading
  • memories Ireland sixties and seventies
  • memories of home
  • memory
  • Memory from 60's Roscommon
  • memory loss
  • memory of Annie Connolly
  • Memory of father
  • memory of love
  • memory of my father
  • Memory poem
  • Messi
  • Messi goal
  • Michael and John O'Dea
  • Michael O'Dea poems
  • Michael O'Dea's new collection
  • Michael Prysner
  • Michelangeli
  • Mick O'Dea
  • mid-sixties
  • Midland tourist attractions
  • midland town
  • midlands poetry
  • migrant crises at borders
  • migrants in Europe
  • Migrants view of Europe
  • migration
  • military graveyard
  • Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Miltown Malbay
  • Minding the environment
  • minihan
  • Mire
  • Mixed up Yeats
  • mo chéad dán trí Gaeilge
  • modern poetry
  • modern poetry from Ireland
  • modern working lives
  • monastic ruins
  • Monet
  • moon poem
  • Moonlight
  • mortality
  • Mother looking after her family; in praise of motherhood
  • Mother's death
  • mother's love on mothers day
  • Mount Rushmore
  • mountain stream
  • mountains lost in mist
  • mourning a death
  • mourning death
  • movie poetry
  • Movies
  • Moylurg Writers
  • Mrs Beeton's
  • Mullingar
  • Mullingar Scribblers
  • murmuration of starlings
  • murmurations
  • Murvagh
  • Murvagh Beach
  • muse
  • Museo del Prado
  • Museo Picasso
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • music
  • music of nature
  • mustard gas
  • my father
  • My move to the countryside shows in my poetry through a greater appreciation and understanding of nature
  • my view on current leaders
  • mysterious misty landscape
  • myth
  • myths and legends
  • natural cyces
  • natural cycles in narure
  • Nature
  • Nature in the city
  • Nature is brutal
  • Nature poem
  • nature poetry from Ireland
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