As part of Dunshaughlin Poetry Town laureateship I will be facilitating an online workshop on poetry exploration and critique. The event will take place on Thursday 16th September, from 7 pm to 9 pm. Tickets can be booked on Eventbrite, here.
Anyone with an interest in poetry, budding or more advanced, is invited to attend.
Later in the week I will unveil a list of 5 poems to be discussed during the workshop.
Congratulations to the Meath Senior Ladies Gaelic football team who won the All Ireland today in some style, and were a joy to watch.
I heard on the radio earlier that it would have been Dolores O'Riordan's 50th birthday tomorrow so I've edited a poem I wrote in her memory, when she passed in 2018.
RIP Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud too.
Fade-out Bittersweet
IM Dolores O’Riordan, 1971-2018
The soul of Éireann
gathered as a storm on water
summoned to her voice,
released in a yearning of rain.
Flowers grew, imbued with
rock ‘n’ roll tie-dyed grace,
teenagers by stereos,
without mobiles or WIFI
before Celtic Tiger’s roar,
when life was new.
The first snow drop
reaches up on a day of death.
When stars shine am I looking on you?
Or are you looking on me?
Is this great divide of selves
a pool untouchable?
When I think of her going
it is the recoiling of the heart I
fear,
the fading into nothingness of
original song
when we cannot press repeat.
Orla Fay
