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10 Anniversary 2010 - 2019 P O E T R Y & W R I T I N G Free Online Magazine From Village Earth Volume One December 2019 Terry McDonagh Live Encounters Ten Years On Cover Artwork by Irish Artist Emma Barone 2019 December Volume One POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net L I V E E N C O U N T E R S M A G A Z I N E P O E T R Y & W R I T I N G Volume One December 2019 Support Live Encounters. Donate Now and Keep the Magazine Live in 2020! was founded in 2009 in Bali, Indonesia. It showcases some Liveof the Encounters best writing is afrom not-for-profit around the free world. online Poets, magazine writers, that academics, civil & human/animal rights activists, academics, environmentalists, social workers, photographers and more have contributed their time and knowledge for the benefit of theWe arereaders appealing of the formagazine. donations to pay for the administrative and technical aspects of the publication. Please help spread the free distribution of knowledge with any amount for this just cause. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om Mark Ulyseas Publisher/Editor [email protected] All articles and photographs are the copyright of www.liveencounters.net and its contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the explicit written permission of www.liveencounters.net. Offenders will be criminally prosecuted to the full extent of the law ©Mark Ulyseas prevailing in their home country and/or elsewhere. Floral offering at temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand. © liveencounters.net POETRY & WRITING Volume One December 2019 Celebrating 10th Anniversary 2019 December Volume One POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net P O E T R Y & W R I T I N G Volume One December 2019 Contributors Terry McDonagh – Guest Editorial Ingrid Storholmen Randhir Khare James Walton Emma Barone - Irish Artist Jane Williams Suniti Namjoshi Joachim Matschoss Christopher Merrill John Maxwell O’Brien Alex Skovron John Sibley Williams Alisa Velaj John W Sexton Angela Topping Kathleen Mary Fallon Anne Casey Kenneth Nolan Anne Fitzgerald Liz McKeane Anne M Carson Lorna Shaughnessy Anne Walsh Donnelly Lynda Tavakoli Arthur Broomfield Marion Campbell Attracta Fahey Mary Melvin Geoghegan Brian Kirk Michael Durack Beatriz Copello Ness O’Mahony Cathy Altmann Niall Cahir Chad Norman Nina Kossman Claudine Nash Noel Duffy Colin Dardis Peter O’Neill Donna Prinzmetal Polly Richardson Doreen Duffy Roisin Browne Francis Browner Rosemary Jenkinson Faye Boland Stephen Haven Ian C Smith Susan Azhar Porterfield © liveencounters.net POETRY & WRITING Volume One December 2019 Celebrating 10th Anniversary 2019 December Volume One POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net G U E S T E D I T O R I A L T E R R Y M C D O N A G H Terry McDonagh, poet and dramatist, taught creative writing at Hamburg University and was Drama Director at the International School Hamburg. He’s published ten poetry collections as well as letters, drama, prose and poetry for young people. His work has been translated into German and Indonesian. 2016: poetry collection, Lady Cassie Peregrina – Arlen House. 2017: included in Fire and Ice 2, Gill Education for Junior Cycle. 2017: poem, UCG by Degrees, included in Galway Poetry Trail on Galway University Campus. 2017: Director of WestWords, Irish literature festival in Hamburg. 2018: latest poetry collection, Fourth Floor Flat – 44 Cantos, published autumn 2018 by Arlen House. http://www.terry-mcdonagh.com/ Terry is a founding contributor of Live Encounters Magazine. Terry McDonagh Live Encounters Ten Years On There is a special symmetry and circularity in this current, bumper edition of Poetry & Writing and Live Encounters Young Poets & Writers. This issue is the Liveresult Encounters of the hard that work incorporates of ten valuable Live and Encounters productive Magazine, years. Live Encounters The growth and success of LE is a tribute to the vision and persistence of founder and Editor in Chief, Mark Ulyseas. It all began in 2010 when Mark reached out to the international community to produce a bimonthly international journal by citizens of planet earth. Now, a decade later, LE has become a much bigger story connecting with artists, young and old; to people of diverse religious, political and business backgrounds and persuasions. LE offers well-known writers, journalists, reviewers and critical thinkers from all corners of the globe an opportunity to access a wider audience. LE provides a platform for national and international contemporary writing by people from various geographical regions and social backgrounds. Reading through issue after issue from 2010 up to 2019 has helped me realise that the earth is, indeed, a village, populated by millions of village earth people. These ‘villagers’ might, at first glance, appear somewhat different to ‘US’. But we become increasingly aware that although they wear their own particular colours, we share myriad basic needs and aspirations. We can all unite through our poems, Poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold. Terry McDonagh songs, stories, images and dreams. We can perhaps find solace and comfort. © Terry McDonagh © liveencounters.net POETRY & WRITING Volume One December 2019 Celebrating 10th Anniversary 2019 December Volume One POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net G U E S T E D I T O R I A L T E R R Y M C D O N A G H Poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold. LE grants us glimpses into the concerns of real people – their troubles, cares and special moments in picture, prose and poetry. It grants us some time out and allows us access to the experiences of others. In the words of American poet, Mary Oliver, it gives us ropes let down to the lost – time to contemplate universal real life issues – fear, joy, loneliness, and relationships. We attain insight into life in cities and cultures we may never have the opportunity to visit. This wide geographical spread challenges our cultural and moral certitudes and prejudices. It rattles us with differing vibrations to make us laugh, believe and, sometimes, cry. I was honoured to have been included in the inaugural issue of LE in 2010 with two of my poems: ‘A Gypsy Woman in Ireland’ and ‘Writer’s Festival on Bali’. Thanks to the great Indonesian poet and publisher, Rosa Herliany, I took part in The International Festival of Bali in 2004. It seems like a long time ago but the memory is vivid and alive and it inspired my poem, ‘A Writers Festival on Bali’. The further we reach out the greater the reward. Reaching out has become an LE anthem. Live Encounters Young Poets & Writers is a very positive and exciting new development. An authentic and professional forum for writing by children and teenagers is so important. They learn about the process of writing, editing and and beliefs are taken seriously. This is an exciting and demanding time for publication.young people. They Traditional gain in self-confidencevalues and systems as writers are being and challenged citizens whose and issues ideas such as climate change, gender roles and mental health are major concerns. We live in a world of social media, images and pictures – hence the opportunity for young people to write and publish their opinions is invaluable. And LE gives us a happy ability of enhancing text with his choice of image and picture. a master class in how to produce a magazine. Mark always gets it right. He has Terry as a young poet in the 1970s. © Terry McDonagh © liveencounters.net POETRY & WRITING Volume One December 2019 Celebrating 10th Anniversary 2019 December Volume One POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net G U E S T E D I T O R I A L T E R R Y M C D O N A G H Traditional values and systems are being challenged and issues such as climate change, gender roles and mental health are major concerns. We live in a world of social media, images and pictures – hence the opportunity for young people to write and publish their opinions is invaluable. I often ask myself why write at all? I don’t have answers but I suspect it has to do with need – a desire to tell a story as yet untold. Poetry is a life-cherishing force – Mary Oliver. Then there is the fear of rejection; the countless hours when we could be doing something sensible. And if we begin to take our writing seriously there is the question of publication. Thankfully Mark Ulyseas offers us an enduring and creditable outlet and platform for our work. When I meet poets we talk about Live Encounters! During the last decade Live Encounters has developed, matured and found its feet. The circle is closed that began with the publication of the Inaugural Issue of The Importance of Being Oscar Wilde at The Late Writers & Readers Festival. Little Januarycould Mark 2010. have In thatrealised first that issue, we Oscar would Wilde be heaping appears praise to Mark on Ulyseasthe importance to discuss of Live Encounters in 2019. To quote Oscar Wilde, ‘Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.’ Here’s to the next ten years of Live Encounters! Fourth Floor Flat, published by Arlen House. http://www.terry-mcdonagh.com/ © Terry McDonagh © liveencounters.net POETRY & WRITING Volume One December 2019 Celebrating 10th Anniversary 2019 December Volume One POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net L I G H T D A N C E - A F T E R R U M I R A N D H I R K H A R E Randhir Khare is a distinguished writer, artist, teacher and theatre personality.