Asking for Directions

Michael Farry's debut poetry collection "Asking for Directions" will be launched tonight at 8 pm in The Castle Arch Hotel, Trim, Co. Meath. It will be published by Doghouse.

Arrive early to get a seat. Copies will be available to purchase. Congratulations to Michael who is always a generous, erudite and astute mentor to all in The Boyne Writers. I'm looking forward to reading this book. It looks like a lovely warm May day is ahead and this will end it perfectly.

Michael is a founding member and the secretary of Boyne Writers' Group, and the editor of Boyne Berries Magazine. Recently he has been published in The SHOp and Revival. He won 3rd place in the Prole Laureate Poetry competition. Last year he was selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions Series.
He will also publish a history book, Sligo, 1912-1923 with Four Courts Press later this year.

Capering Moons Anatoly Kudryavitsky

I'm dipping in and out of Capering Moons, a book of Haiku and Senryu poetry by Anatoly Kudryavitsky who is the editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal.  The book was published last year by Doghouse.  Michael Farry gave me this collection at last week's Boyne Readings and open mic.

Capering means to leap or frisk about; frolic. 

through the forest -

in waterlogged footprints,

capering moons

writes Kudryavitsky.

The haiku are initially divided into seasons.  There is then a section of more haiku and senryu, followed by two sequences about Italy and Ghent and the book closes with a haibun called Ufa City. 

Two haiku about summer immediately caught my eye, literally.  Visually great imagery is evoked:

now you see it, now you don't

white butterfly

at Dover Cliffs

and...

starry night

a black and yellow ladybird

sits still.

There is a lot to read and take in here in this book.  It is available to purchase from Doghouse for 12 euro if you follow the link below :

http://www.doghousebooks.ie/doghouse/publications/publication.php?publication=caperingmoons