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Thursday 27 April 2017 www.poetryday.ie | #PoetryDayIRL 1 POETRY CONNECTS! Poetry Day Ireland Thursday 27 April 2017 Established by Poetry Ireland in 2015, Poetry Day Ireland is a major one-day festival of Irish poetry at home and abroad. The many wonderful events in this brochure are a testament to the dedication and commitment of poetry lovers and event promoters around the country, who do so much to keep Ireland’s poetry landscape vibrant, all year round. From Kerry to Derry, more than 100 creative, inspiring and thought- provoking events will take place on Thursday 27 April. This year’s theme is Poetry Connects, and organisers and collaborators have been invited to embrace the theme, ignore it, or make it their own. You’ll encounter poetry that deals with every aspect of human life – birth, death, friendship, love, separation, displacement, joy and rage, all with that particular transcendent charge that the best poetry brings to our lives. So whether it’s in a café, arts centre, library, bookshop or bar, find an event near you and connect with a poem on Poetry Day Ireland. connect with us See www.poetryday.ie for full details of all events on Poetry Day Ireland @poetryireland | @poetryireland.eigseeireann | @poetryireland #PoetryDayIRL #PoetryConnects brought to you by thank you! Poetry Day Ireland would not be possible without its supporters and partners principal supporters annual supporters in partnership with 2 3 D Poetry out and about DPoetry out and about pocket poems 3 /9 pocket poems 3 /9 Letters from Mount Fuji Espresso Jessica Traynor Pocket Poems Colette Bryce Chocolate Poems A minuscule bird From the top of Mount Fujiyama I send you clinging to a twig letters, Keep an eye out for our Pocket Poems, Poetry Ireland and Butlers Chocolate Cafés written on square pages, then folded is shredding a loop of knotted string in as many different patterns as a snowflake. to a fibre-fuzzy I drop them onto thin air; watch them fall gorgeous mini cards featuring Poetry mist in its bill, are teaming up again to give a taste of some into the world. a haze as soft Open one. In it is a picture from your childhood. as cotton wool Look at it: it melts in your hand Connects-themed poems by writers great coffee and chocolate-themed poetry. On with which to line like the question I ask you, caught on a breeze, a nest no bigger and your answer, taken by the river to the sea. including Colette Bryce, Paul Muldoon, than this small cup Poetry Day Ireland pop into any one of the 19 I lift to my lips Even through this constant, year-devouring snow, while I wait for you I will always send you letters. Seamus Heaney and more. Pick up in this little coffee shop Butlers Chocolate Cafés around the country on the avenue, Thursday 27 April 2017 From Liffey Swim, by kind permission of Dedalus Press for such is April. Find an event near you. Connect with a poem. Thursday 27 April 2017 a Pocket Poem in participating arts #PoetryDayIRL | www.poetryday.ie and select a free, beautifully-presented poetry Find an event near you. 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Twisting head, darting eyes, Lucinda Jacob her meaning under wraps www.poetryday.ie, where you’ll find a Thursday 27 April 2017 in every poker face and frown, in every flush and every blush. Find an event near you Half the readers are mermaids Connect with a poem My sister is a tradeswoman come up for air and enlightenment. #PoetryDayIRL in feminine expressions, handy guide to the featured poems by They sit damply in corners www.poetryday.ie in swollen eyes, thorn eyes, or swerve round the bookstands mashing of brows. I take on board the depth Niall MacMonagle. slip along shelves, read the news Train Poems of her fidelity, as their new feet dry, or wait the obscured communication it has taken me my whole life POETRY DAY IRELAND takes place on Thursday 27 wide-eyedApril at the 5 deskAGILE GIBBON DARTFor commuters here the water buffalo may rove, can enjoy 15 ROTHSCHILDgreat GIRAFFE Poetry The Indian Peafowl to figure out. 2017. This annual one-day festival of Irish poetry is organisedlike seals at the fishThe Gibbon!ladies. The kinkajou, the mungabey, abound The Giraffe’s Neck Emma Daly by Poetry Ireland and includes readings, events, broadcasts In the dark jungle of a mango grove, age 9, scoil náisiúnta an chroí naofa, co. cork From The Coast Road, by kind permission of The Gallery Press and poetic surprises across the island. AidanT RJenkinsAIN age 9, st john the baptist ns, co. cork Ava Charalambous Read the original Irish version of this poem on poetryday.ie Senior Category Competition Finalist And shadowy lemurs glide from tree to tree – aged 9, scoil náisiúnta an chroí naofa, co. cork Senior Category Competition Finalist 2017 STATION EXIT Thursday 27 April Half the readers are mermaids: Connects-themedThe guardians of some long-lost treasure-trove) poems on(Junior poetry Category Competition Finalist)posters This year Poetry Ireland and Fota Wildlife Park have teamed Find an event near you. Connect with a poem. I jump out and say boo, boo, but… Recount their exploits at the nursery tea The peculiar, plucky peafowl 12/12 Supported by: 1/12 Supported by: up to bring you this family-friendly Poetry Trail Map. Followthey left the coal harbour Always gathers a crowd Read about this poem RTÉ Supporting the #PoetryDayIRLRead |about www.poetryday.ie this poem RTÉ Supporting the I like to say, oo, oo! The giraffe’s long, slippery whoopie neck on poetryday.ie Arts & Iarnród Éireann on poetryday.ie Arts & Iarnród Éireann the trail around the park during your visit, and enjoy someflumped up on Mythe hands hard, up high, in the sky And when the lamps are lit and curtains drawn curled around a treetop deck By posing photogenically great poems about the flora and fauna that you encounter. I know I sound coo, coo! across Demandthe some poetry,DART please. Whose shall fleet it be, for twothrough a hedgeweeks and through a table from Placid, pretty and proud. Pillow Poems slipped and stowed their skins At not quite time for bed?… ate the humongus doornob ledge The map includes poems by world-famous writers like Roald (excerpt) She parades past pedestrians in sailing club lockers. 6 THE TROPICAL HOUSE through the park and over the bench Dahl, TS Eliot, Paul Muldoon and WB Yeats, as well as a 17 and then he goes back home again, Gathering ceaseless praise, Guests of the luxury hotel Group, The selection of wonderful poems by children, the finalists and Hurt No Living Thing 17 April, 11 HARBOUR thanks SEAL to the generoushas a bath, scrubs supportthe table of Pottering around pleasantly winners of our Poetry Day Ireland and Fota Wildlife Park They glide past Christinacomputers Rossetti Seal 6 then he said tomorrow I’ll do it all again. In a peaceful daze Poetry Trail Competition. Hurt no living thing, William Jay Smith If there isn't a peafowl near you and wade through the books until 16 TAPIR Doyle Collection will be in for a treat We hope you enjoy your time exploring Fota Wildlife Parksuddenly swift, Ladybirdsleek cubsnor butterfly, in their wake, IarnródSee how Éireann. he dives There will also be a free There's no need to dwell Munster Football through poetry today! Nor moth with dusty wing, From the rocks with a zoom! Tapir Rescue Because you can find one at coats billowing, Northey cricket stream chirping up cheerily, Marine See how he darts Abi Barron age 8, co. waterford Fota Wildlife Park and hotel. Final 1924 Nor grasshopper, so light of leap, Road 17 Through his watery room Junior Category Competition WINNER Gabriel Fitzmaurice on Poetry Day Ireland. Pillow Poem 1 OSTRICH Nor dancing gnat, poetryPast and crabs and eels music performance at Pearse MARA 7 Abi Barron went off one day (the Mara roams freely around Fota and is often found The Animals are Leaving to the town8 for take-awayNor beetle fat, And green seaweed, for mick o’connell Nor harmless worms that creep. Past fluffs of sandy Over the hills and far away near the African Savannah and in the Woodland areas) Charles Harper Webb fish and ships. Minnow feed! To a rainforest where she met a tapir The Mara Nothing polarises like a war, Thursday 27 April 2017 OMG! Fancy meeting you here. 5 cards will be placed in all hotel rooms 7 GREAT WHITE PELICAN StationSee howto he swims liven up the evening rush hour on And, of all wars, a civil war is worst; One by one, like guests at a late party 9 Ellie Marah aged 12, mayfield, cork With a swerve and a twist, They shake our hands and step into the dark: From Hopscotch in the Sky, forthcoming in October 2017 The tapir smiled with his wobbly snout Senior Category Competition WINNER It takes a century to heal the scars Pillow Poems From The Giraffe and Pelly and Me A flip of the flipper, And even then some names remain accursed.