Comments by Poet Tom French on Boyne Berries 1916

Bird Cage Jean-Michel Folon

Tom French's comments delivered at the launch of Boyne Berries 1916 are now available on the Boyne Berries BlogSpot. They're an interesting read. It's also interesting to learn that Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid has been published. A review can be found in The Irish Times by clicking this link http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/aeneid-book-vi-seamus-heaney-s-miraculous-return-from-literary-afterlife-1.2548521

Boyne Berries 1916 Launch, Thursday, 31st March.

 

Featuring the work of 29 poets and 5 writers of fiction Boyne Berries 1916 will be launched this coming Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Castle Arch Hotel, Trim, Co Meath. Many of the contributors to the magazine will attend and read on the night. The attendance of family and friends is welcome. If you have an interest in poetry, prose or in the commemoration of 1916 come along too. It is a free event and the magazine will be available to purchase on the night.

The magazine will be launched by poet Tom French. Tom has published three collection with the renowned Gallery Press; Touching the Bones which won the Forward Prize for a first collection in 2002, The Fire Step (2009) and Midnightstown (2014). He has also published The Night Ahead (2013) and Taking the Oath (2015) with Smithereens Press He has recently won the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy award for poetry. The Boyne Writers' Group are honoured to have him launch this edition of the magazine.

Boyne Berries 1916 Submission Call

The submission period for Boyne Berries 19, which will be a special issue commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Rising, will open on Sunday, 15th November 2015 and close on Sunday, 03rd January, 2016. The magazine will  be published in late March of 2016.

 

What does 1916 mean to you now? Can you picture life one hundred years ago? Is romantic Ireland dead and gone? What would those figures, those celebrated heroes of our past make of Ireland today if they could step out from the shadows? Is this a time to truly reflect? I don't want to put words in your mouth but I'd love to know what you think, what you feel, what you imagine...

 

I am keen to read work from writers in the Meath area but national and international submissions are also welcome.

 

Send up to 3 poems per poetry submission. Poems should be no more than 40 lines long. Fiction and prose submissions should be no more than 1500 words. Please use Times New Roman 12 and single spacing. Please include a short biographical note about yourself. Submissions should be placed in the body of the email and attached as a word document attachment. Submit to orla.a.fay@gmail.com only.

 

Submissions which fail to adhere to the above criteria will be ignored.