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EXCUSIVE: A month of poetic activities to bring visitors to city and county
It’s Official: April No Longer the Cruellest Month!
by Tommy Collins poetry, including local, national and
international readers! A cornucopia
According to the poet TS Elliot ‘April is of events has been revealed which
the cruellest month’, but according to will appeal to those with a passion for
Dominic Taylor of the Limerick Writers’ poetry and also those with only a passing
Centre, April is no longer the ‘cruellest interest.
month’ in Limerick! Taylor, proudly calls it a ‘world-
And the reason is because April is class, life-enriching series of events for
now officially Poetry Month in Limerick. Limerick audiences’. Scheduled is a full
For the month of April Limerick will month of extraordinary and inspiring Poet Helen Mort from Manchester, one of
showcase the best from the world of poetry events. During the thirty days of the guests this April
April events will include a discussion on
the role of poetry in the political sphere, The News Gets Verse, where all the
Kevin Higgins, probable Ireland’s most limericks must be based on current news
political poet, will be in conversation plus workshops on poetry writing with
with Prof Eoin Devereux of UL at the Ron Carey and song writing with John
City Library on the 19th April. Spillane (in association with Steamboat
The festival, which was inaugurated Music) and we discover the art behind the
by the Limerick Writers’ Centre and Poetry of Bob Dylan. Plus Polish Poetry
Quay Books in 2013, has now secured in translation and Poetry and Painting
a grant from Limerick City & County with local artist Kate Hennessy.
Dylan Poetry Page. 4 Not forgetting two ‘On the Nail’
Council to grow the event into a
nationally recognised, all-poetry festival Literary gatherings, one in Chez le Fab
for lovers of poetry, with a world-class and one in Limerick City Library. This
series of events for participants and year also sees the inauguration of a
audiences alike. Poetry Wall in a prominent city location.
Also included are readings by National Poetry Day and World Book
award nominated UK poets Helen Day will also form an integral part of
John Spillane Songwriting the festival programme. And, except for
Workshop P. 6
Mort and Jacqueline Saphra as well
as Irish award winners Ron Carey and workshops, it’s all free to the public.
Tim Cunningham. Other festival poets The 5th annual festival, will take
include John Liddy, Edward O’Dwyer, place in various venues around Limerick,
Gerry Hanberry, Sarah Clancy, Eoin see inside the festival brochure for further
Devereux, Stephen Murphy and Knute details or check out their Facebook page
Skinner. www.facebook.com/aprilispoetrymonthinlimerick
Dr John McDonagh will give a
talk on the Romantic poets in the
City Library, there’s a limericks verse
competition, with cash prizes, called
Full Festival Listings Inside
UK poet Jacqueline Saphra P 13
‘Look How Our Leaders Tremble When They See Us Together’ the opening lines of Sarah
Clancy’s poem could well be the rallying cry of two of Irelands most political poets. Their
skilfully-written, provocative, topical poems have wooed audience up and down the country.
Don’t miss this chance to see them perform together in Limerick.
Mayoral Proclamation
APRIL IS POETRY MONTH IN LIMERICK 2018
WHEREAS, the Limerick Writers’ Centre established April is Poetry Month in Limerick in
2013; and
WHEREAS, April is poetry Month in Limerick seeks to highlight the extraordinary legacy and
ongoing achievement of poets; introduce Limerick audiences to the pleasures and
benefits of reading poetry; bring poets and poetry to the public in immediate and
innovative ways; make poetry an important part of our daily activities; and
WHEREAS, April is Poetry Month in Limerick, under the leadership and direction of the
Limerick Writers’ Centre, is now the largest celebration of poetry in the region; and
WHEREAS, poetry enhances and enriches the lives of all Limerick people; and
WHEREAS, poetry, as an essential part of the arts and humanities, affects every aspect of life in
Ireland today, including education, the economy, and community pride and
development; and
WHEREAS, poetry has produced some of the nation’s leading creative artists and has inspired
other artists in fields such as music, theatre, film, dance, and the visual arts; and
Now, therefore, I Cllr. Stephen Keary, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, do hereby
proclaim April 1st through to April 30th as;
April is Poetry Month in Limerick
I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of Limerick to observe this month, to
celebrate the cultural riches our community has to offer, and to recognise the important role poetry has in
creating and sustaining this great city with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of March, in the year 2018.
The
Limerick
Writers’
Centre
Stephen Keary Mayor of Limerick City and County
‘COME GATHER ‘ROUND PEOPLE’ ‘Bringing Out the Romantic Revival Press
– the Poetry of Bob Dylan with Gerry Hanberry in You’: Shelley, Keats and Is pleased to announce the launch of
Wordsworth
Bob Dylan is arguably, the most important figure in pop-culture history. In 2016 MADRID and Other poems
he was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature for having ‘created new poetic Thurs 12h April 7.30pm
expressions within the great American song tradition’. In this presentation /
John Liddy’s eleventh collection of poems
The Granary Library, Michael Street, Limerick
performance the award-winning poet, biographer, author and musician Gerard
(Gerry) Hanberry will talk about the various influences, musical, literary and
personal, that have informed Bob Dylan’s work. He will also be performing a
selection of Dylan’s iconic songs. Hanberry will be exploring the various ways
in which Dylan has afforded song writing completely new vistas in terms of
themes, nuance and the use of surrealistic imagery and Dylan’s ability to infuse
the known with the unknown in ways never before encountered in popular
song.
Fri 13th April 7.30pm
Free Admission St Munchin’s Church, Church Street,
King’s Island, Limerick
7.30pm Thurs 5th April 2018
The Granary Library, Michael Street, Limerick ‘A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and
The book will be launched by Waterford born poet Thomas
McCarthy. This is a joint launch with Clare based poet Knute
comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of Skinner who will also be launching his new collection at the
Further details; Tel 087 2996409 another and of many others. The pains and pleasures event.
Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com of his species must become his own. The great instru-
ment of moral good is the imagination; and poetry ad- From the early poem ‘Madrid Through The Eyes of a Stran-
Gerard Hanberry is an award-winning poet, biographer, author and musician. His fourth collection of poems ‘What ministers to the effect by acting upon the cause.’ (Percy ger’, first published in the bilingual collection Wine and
Our Shoes Say About Us’ was published in 2014 by Salmon Poetry. This follows his collection ‘At Grattan Road’ Shelley) Hope/Vino y Esperanza (1999), to the epic title poem’ Ma-
(Salmon Poetry 2009). His biography of the Wilde family ‘More Lives Than One – The Remarkable Wilde Family drid’ in this present collection, John Liddy returns to his
Through the Ages’ was published by The Collins Press in 2011. Hanberry’s most recent work ‘On Raglan Road adopted home, no longer a stranger but seasoned in its idi-
This talk will look at the poetry of Percy Shelley, John
– Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them’ (The Collins Press, 2016) combines his two great osyncrasies. It is as though he has come full circle. But he
Keats and William Wordsworth and their contribution moves further afield to take in Galicia, Asturias, Atapuerca
interests – music and literature. Gerard is currently working on his fifth poetry collection. to the Romantic movement of the late 18th/early 19th and the Ireland he has never stopped writing about.
century. Madrid and Other Poems takes the reader beyond place
and country into the heart of modern living with its political
and social upheavals. The tribute poem to poets past and pre-
Polish Poetry in Translation sent and the questioning, religious-social poem are also to be
found in this, his eleventh collection.
The book is Liddy’s unrelentless search for whatever
The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Świrszczyńska: a bi-lingual truths may be found in the writing of poems. He is concerned
with what the eye observes and how thoughts reveal or un-
reading at Nellys Corner Cafe, Nicholas Street, Limerick fold. He is very attuned to what the American poet Stanley
Mon 9th April 7.30pm Kunitz wrote in Reflections to his Collected Poems: I like to
think that it is the poet’s love of particulars, the things of this
world, that leads him to universals. Those, according to Liddy,
Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet, lived an intensely Dr. John Mc Donagh is a Senior Lecturer in the De- are the identifiable traits in this book.
private life. “My poems are about people and life,” she said. partment of English Language and Literature at Mary
Immaculate College, Limerick. He is the author of John Liddy was born in Co. Cork 1954. He grew up in Lim-
Brendan Kennelly – A Host of Ghosts (Liffey Press, erick and took a degree with The University of Wales. He
Anna Świrszczyńska, The quick, decisive strokes in which she registers worked for many years as a teacher/librarian. Founding editor
2004) and Michael Hartnett Remembered (Four
moments of meeting or parting are almost abstract in their lack of surface Courts Press, 2006). A Fine Statement – An Irish Poets’
with Jim Burke of The Stony Thursday Book, he has pub-
lished ten collections of poetry in English, three with Spanish
detail, but they give us glimpses of a turbulent, even ferocious internal life. Anthology, was published by Poolbeg Press in Novem- translations, as well as books for children. His own transla-
ber, 2008. Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New tions include the work of Irish and Spanish poets. He was
Europe was published by Peter Lang in 2011. His latest Limerick City of Culture Poet in Residence for July 2014 and
monograph, entitled Cries of the Caveman – The Poet- co-edited 1916-2016: An Anthology of Reactions. A collec-
Details: Dominic Taylor: 087 2996409 ry of Paul Durcan, was published by Cambridge Schol- tion of all his Spanish related poems is forthcoming in 2018.
ars Press in 2016. He is currently working on a book He lives in Madrid and summers in Ireland.
Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
for Palgrave Macmillan exploring the Gothic trope in
the poetry of the First World War. Details: Dominic Taylor Tel 087 2996409
Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
Songwriting Workshop with John Spillane Poetry and Painting with artist Poetry in Motion
Kate Hennessy
Sun 15th April 3pm – 6pm
Steamboat Music, Steamboat Quay, Limerick 12.00 noon Fri 20th April 2018
Followed by a free concert in Charlie Malones, Wolfe Tone Street, at 8.30pm CB1 O’Connell Street, Limerick
This half-day workshop with down to them, I was inspired to
Meteor award winning songwriter invent a novel approach, where we
John Spillane, is brought to you all sit down and write a finished
by the Limerick Writers’ Centre in song in one session. This teaches
association with Steamboat Music many lessons, including finishing
and The Acoustic Club. things, which is often a big problem Poetry in Motion, which is taking place in Mary
for writers. I create a space where Immaculate College, Limerick on April 26th 2018. It
Two-time Meteor award winner, all negativity, all criticism and will feature both artists and academics speaking about
John is one of the most accomplished judgment are locked outside.
Spoken Word Poetry and what it means today. It is
songwriters in Ireland today. Among
those who have covered his songs • We get down and dirty and write
being run by doctoral student and performance poet
are Christy Moore, Karan Casey, songs. First we write words. Then Paul McNamara with the support of Mary Immaculate
Pauline Scanlon, Cathy Ryan, we assemble them in a certain order, College and in particular the English Language and
Sharon Shannon, Sean Keane, using the tricks of the trade, verse, Literature department. The conference will bring
George Murphy, to name a few. chorus, repetition, rhyme etc. Then together practice and research as it investigates how
He performs to audiences large and we sing them and we have a song. poetry and performance are combined.
small everywhere. • I try to come behind people and
Booking essential: Price €12 The poet Wallace Stevens delivered a lecture on
help them lose whatever inhibitions the “Relations Between Poetry and Painting”
This is what John says about the and fears they may have about Enquiries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in
forthcoming workshop: writing songs. 1951. In this lecture, Stevens explored the parallel
• Storytelling in the song, we will Tel: 087 2996409 / 061- 311 696 attributes of poetry and painting, beginning with
“At my song writing workshops examine and enjoy the Irish ballad E-mail: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com /
we actually write songs. Having tradition and see how a story may be
reference to adages that apply to both poets and
info@steamboatmusic.ie
attended a few workshops where told in a song, how the music can painters and culminating with the emphatic
the participants play their songs heighten the action. conclusion that “it would be tragic not to realize
to be criticised by experts who talk the extent of man’s dependence on the arts.”
Another great poet Frank O’Hara was also an
Paul McNamara is a poet, playwright and PhD student
Three poets John Liddy, Tim Cunningham and Eoin Devereux Reading art critic. He worked as a curator at the Museum
from Limerick. Paul is a two time All-Ireland Spoken
of Modern Art in New York.
Mon 16th April 7.30pm at Chez le Fab, Arthur’s Quay park, Limerick Word Poetry runner-up. He has won the Munster
On Fri 20th April in CB1, O’Connell Street
Spoken Word Slam (2016), Limerick’s Got Talent
Admission Free at 11.00am (time and location to be confirmed) (2015), and the inaugural Yeats’ Tower Slam (2016)
April is Poetry Month in Limerick present Poetry sponsored by Poetry Ireland. His first play Searching
John Liddy was born in Co. Cork 1954. He grew up in Limerick and took a degree with The and Painting by celebrated artist Kate Hennessy. For Rusty was performed in Limerick in 2016 and he
University of Wales. He worked for many years as a teacher/librarian. Founding editor with Kate will exhibit six of her paintings and read has completed a one year play-writing course with
Jim Burke of The Stony Thursday Book, he has published ten collections of poetry in English,
six of her favourite poems which loosely have a Olivier Award winning company Fishamble. His work
three with Spanish translations, as well as books for children. His own translations include the
work of Irish and Spanish poets. He was Limerick City of Culture Poet in Residence for July connection with the paintings on display, she will has been featured on RTE Radio 1 and Irish TV, at
also give an interlinking commentary on how the festivals such as Indiependence, and been published
2014 and co-edited 1916-2016: An Anthology of Reactions. A collection of all his Spanish
paintings came about and process involved in in Sextet, Solstice Sounds and The Stony Thursday.
related poems is forthcoming in 2018. He lives in Madrid and summers in Ireland.
their creation. He has also edited a collection of audio poetry with
Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick and educated at C.B.S., Limerick, and Birkbeck Col- Stanzas.
Wallace Stevens argued that, because poetry
lege, London. He has worked, mainly in education, in Dublin, London, Delaware and Essex. and painting operate at the juncture between
He has published six collections of poetry, his most recent one The Lyrics to the Nightingale Paul is a Departmental Assistant in the English
imagination and reality, these arts assume a Language and Literature Department at Mary
Song was published by Revival Press (2016).
prophetic stature. Immaculate College. His Doctoral Thesis is titled ‘An
Eoin Devereux has published poetry and short fiction in journals such as Southwords, The Analysis of the Representation of Disability in Recent
Bohemyth, Wordlegs, Boyne Berries and Number Eleven. A flash fiction version of his short This is a free event and all are welcome to Popular Literature from a Post-colonial Perspective.’
story Mrs Flood was broadcast by RTE Radio 1’s Bookshow. His poem ‘The Bodhi Tree’ was attend. His research interests include Disability Theory, Post-
published by Hennessy New Irish Writing in the Irish Times in 2017. The Irish Times also colonial Theory, Performance Poetry, Gender Studies,
published his short story ‘Making A Stand’ in December 2017. A Professor at the University and Modern Irish Poetry and Theatre.
Further details: Tel 087 2996409
of Limerick, Eoin will lecture on Punk and Creative Writing at the 2018 UL Frank McCourt
Summer School in Creative Writing in May. Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2018
The
Limerick Writers’ Centre
Tues 3rd April 8.00pm – ‘On the Nail’ with Sarah Clancy and Stephen Murphy - Chez le Fab,
Arthurs Quay Park, Limerick and Quay Books
Thurs 5th April 7.30pm – Gerry Hanberry – The Poetry of Bob Dylan – Limerick City Library
announce
Mon 9th April 7.30pm – Polish Poetry in translation – Nellys Corner, Nicholas street, Limerick World Book Day
Thurs 12th April 7.30pm – Great Writers: The Romantics with John McDonagh – Limerick
City Library
Fri 13th April 7.30pm – John Liddy Book launch - (in tandem with Knute Skinners book
launch)- St Munchin’s Church, Church Street, King’s Island, Limerick
Sun 15th April 3.00pm to 6.00pm – John Spillane song writing workshop – Steamboat Music
(followed at 9pm by a free concert by John in Charlie Malones, Wolfe Tone Street)
Mon 16th April 7.30pm – Reading: John Liddy; Tim Cunningham, Eoin Devereux – Chez le
Fab, Arthurs Quay Park, Limerick
Poetry
Thurs 19th April 7.30pm – Eoin Devereux in conversation with poet Kevin Higgins (Theme: Wall
Poetry & Politics) – Limerick City library
Thurs 19th April 9.00am to 6.00pm – Poetry in Motion Conference at MIC with Paul McNa-
mara
Fri 20th April 12.00 noon – Poetry and Painting with artist Kate Hennessy. CB1, O’Connell
APRIL
is
Poetry Month
St, Limerick The
News
Mon 23rd April 3.00pm – World Book day event Arthurs Quay Shopping Centre (afternoon) Gets
Verse in
Limerick
Limericks
Mon 23rd April 7.30pm – UK poet Helen Mort reading with Edward O’Dwyer – Narrative 4, SLAM!
2018
O’Connell St, Limerick
Thurs 26th April 1.00pm – Lunchtime National Poetry Day reading Hunt Museum
Thurs 26th April 6.30pm to 8.00pm – ‘On the Nail at the Library’ with Jacqueline Saphra
and Ron Carey – Limerick City library
The
Granary
Sat 28th April 10.30am to 12.30pm – Poetry Writing for Older people with Ron Carey – Library
Limerick Writers’ Centre
Mon 30th April 7.30pm – Limericks Slam – theme ‘The News gets Verse’ – Nellys Corner Café.
www.limerickwriterscentre.com
Cash prize for winner.
Tel: 087 2996409 ~ Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
All events, except the workshops, are FREE to the public.Politics and Poetry April is Poetry Month in Limerick
Eoin Devereux in conversation with poet Kevin Higgins Ireland’s most political poet! In association with Poetry Ireland
Present
Thurs 19th April 7.30pm
The Granary Library, Michael Street, Limerick
A poetry reading by UK poet
Plato wanted to banish poets from his Republic because they can make lies seem like truth. Shelley thought
poets were “the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” and Auden insisted that “poetry makes nothing Helen Mort and Limerick poet
happen.” Prof Eoin Devereux talks to poet kevin Higgins about the many different kinds of political Edward O’Dwyer
poems, and his reasons for writing them.
Kevin Higgins’ was published With Vincent Browne. The version of his short story Narrative 4, O’Connell Street, Limerick
by NuaScéalta in early 2016. Stinging Fly magazine Mrs Flood was broadcast by Mon 23rd April 7.30pm
A pamphlet of Kevin’s recently described Kevin as RTE Radio 1’s Bookshow.
political poems The Minister “likely the most read living His poem ‘The Bodhi Tree’
For Poetry Has Decreed was poet in Ireland.” Song of was published by Hennessy
published last December by Songs 2.0: New & Selected New Irish Writing in the
the Culture Matters imprint Poems was published Irish Times in 2017. The
of the UK based Manifesto earlier this year by Salmon Irish Times also published
Press. His poems have been and includes a substantial his short story ‘Making
praised by, among others, number of new poems as A Stand’ in December
Tony Blair’s biographer well as selections from his six 2017. A Professor at the
John Rentoul, Observer previous poetry collections. University of Limerick, Helen Mort is the author of No Map Could Show
columnist Nick Cohen, Eoin will lecture on Punk Them (Random House, 2016) and Division Street
and Sunday Independent Eoin Devereux has published and Creative Writing at the (Chatto & Windus, 2013), which was shortlisted for
columnist Gene Kerrigan; poetry and short fiction in 2018 UL Frank McCourt the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Prize.
and have been quoted in The journals such as Southwords, Summer School in Creative
Daily Telegraph, The Times The Bohemyth, Wordlegs, Writing in May. Helen Mort’s favourite poetry saying:
(UK), The Independent, The Boyne Berries and Number Limerick Writers’ Centre
Daily Mirror, and on Tonight Eleven. A flash fiction ‘A poem is a smuggling of something back from the Present
otherworld, a prime bit of shoplifting where you get
something out the door before the buzzer goes off.’ – Nuala Write It NOW!
Ni Dhomhnaill, RTE 1, July 1995
A spring poetry workshop with
Ron Carey
Sat 28th April 2018 10.30am to 12.30pm
Get techniques and advice for writing poetry and begin to
write new and exciting poetry. Each participant will create,
or have the making of, one new poem in response to prompts
- brought items, photographs etc.
Participants will learn to -Get the pen moving and deal with
Edward O’Dwyer is from Corbally, Limerick. He Writers block. - Write with passion and edit in cold blood.
is widely published in esteemed poetry journals
and anthologies throughout the world. His debut Workshop fee €25 (€20 concession)
collection, The Rain on Cruise’s Street (Salmon Poetry,
2014) was Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes Booking in advance to limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
judges, and his work featured in The Forward Book Tel 087 2996409
of Poetry 2015. He was selected in 2014 to represent Course takes place at Limerick Writers’ Centre, 12 Bar-
Ireland at the Poesiefestival in Berlin for their rington St., Limerick
European ‘renshi’ project. ‘Edward’s latest book Good
News, Bad News was published by Salmon poetry last Poet Ron Carey presents a spring workshop for poetry writers
April. at all levels. No experience necessary. April is Poetry Month
in Limerick, so this workshop is just what you need to keep
your writing on track! Ron provides a range of prompts that
Details:
can see you through the rest of the month. Come away with
limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
inspiration for your writing life!Limerick Writers’ Centre
presents
AT THE LIBRARY
A literary evening with
Jacqueline Saphra Ron Carey
Plus
Limited
Open-Mic
Free Admission!
Thurs 26th April 2018 6.30pm to 8.00pm
The Granary Library, Michael Street, Limerick
For further information Tel 087 2996409 or
E-Mail: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
www.limerickwriterscentre.com
Jacqueline Saphra’s The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye 2011) was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First
Collection Prize. If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women was published by (The Emma Press 2017)
won the Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work. In 2017 A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller was
out from Hercules Editions and her latest collection from Nine Arches Press, All My Mad Mothers, was shortlisted
for the 2017 T.S. Eliot prize. She lives in London and teaches at The Poetry School. www.jacquelinesaphra.com
Ron Carey only began to write poetry seriously in his 60’s. He is a prize-winning poet and a finalist in many national
and international poetry competitions including The Bridport Prize, Lightship International Poetry Prize, Cin-
namon Press Poetry Awards, Fish International Poetry Prize, Gregory O’ Donoghue International Poetry Awards,
Hugh O’Flaherty Poetry Award, iYeats Poetry Prize and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. His poems have
appeared in many anthologies and magazines and he was a featured poet at the Hunt Museum in Limerick for Cuisle
2013. In 2015 he received a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of South Wales. In 2016 he was Highly
Commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award and his debut collection ‘DISTANCE’ was shortlisted for the Forward
Prize Best First Collection UK and Ireland.
There is a limited number of places available for the open-mic after the main event. Contact Dominic Taylor at 087
2996409 if you wish to read.
‘On the Nail’ literary gathering is currently funded by the Arts Council of IrelandThe Poetry Wall As part of this year’s event we have built a ‘wall of
Boundary Wall of St Mary’s Cathedral, poems’ which is located on the boundary wall of
Merchant’s Quay Limerick St Mary’s cathedral, Merchants Quay, Limerick
Sun 1st April to Mon 30th April for the month of April. You are invited to spend
some time reading the poems and by so doing par- Credits; Patrons; Volunteers
Tel 087 2996409 ticipate in April is Poetry Month in Limerick.
Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com
Credits: Michael Dooley Anna Nolan
Brochure design: Lotte Bender Andy Hamilton Quay Books
Contributors: Tommy Collins,
Pat McMahon Carol McNamara Limerick City &
Editor: Dominic Taylor County Council
Bertha McCullagh
Lotte Bender
Mairtin O’Briain
Patrons and Volunteers Tom Muldowney
Claire Sadlier
The Limerick Writers’ Centre Patrick Thomas
is an important part of our Frank O’Mahony Howard
community. It is a non profit
organisation and is run by a Louis Mulcahy Sheila Sugrue
volunteer board of directors
and friends of the centre. Matthew Potter Chris Barr
George Harding Marian Cody
The Limerick Writers’ Centre
BÉIBHINN and jumped. young and romantic, would like to thank the Tom McElligott Katherine Brasseux
rowed the waters. wonderful and generous
You died while playing. You rode your pony,
I am happy about that Rascal or Zorro, A perfect place to run and hide, patrons below: Margaret O’Brien Stephen Riordan
although I’m very lonely, you didn’t have a favourite. shout, cajole and rhyme.
but adventure has its dangers. You played camogie and went swimming. Knute Skinner Pillar International
You were a lovely girl And then you fell in. Publishing Ltd
with so much to live for, When scolded your favourite retort was:
‘Who cares!’ Though short you had a happy life.
Edna Skinner
we so much to witness.
You will never grow old. Merely meaning: ‘Get over it!’ I don’t say goodbye. Tom Moloney
I am not going to indulge John Liddy
in what might be. You rode your bike, your blades. Your smiling eyes; Mae Leonard
your curly hair; Mark Liddy
You fell over a bridge The public park your strawberry birth-mark
observing coins in the water, was a wild open park bright as a berry. Paddy McElligott
silver coins. full of flowers; Margaret Cahill
Had you survived, full of nooks and crannies; Rest happily, dear daughter! Pat O’Connor
drenched wet, hills and hillocks, My prayer:
you would have chased off. bushes, shrubs and ponds; Each morning and evening,
yellow and white water lilies; may our love be carried to you
My wild mountain hare! terns and gulls diving; on angels wings!
‘Hare? Surely a rose? notices informed us of beavers; Whispering softly
Your wild mountain rose!’ a tiny pier and slipway; in your ear.
boats for hire;
You climbed trees; near the old Pump House - Padraic Breathnach
out along the branches, couples,April is Poetry Month 2018
is part funded by the Limerick City and
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