Right. All Ireland Poetry Day went very well. I have a recording of the radio interview/reading, but just need to sort out hosting issues so I can post it here. The Lunchtime Recital went very well: we had a good crowd turn up and they seemed to enjoy the variety and the poems themselves. I read from 'Kairos' and also from the new manuscript.
Patrick Chapman's work was really interesting and also went down very well with the audience. Myself and himself did a swap and I've been reading from his collection, 'Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights,' all weekend.
Paddy Dillon also read very well. I hope it's not too long before he gets a collection published; he has so many fine poems to choose from, and his poems are never conventional in expectation or outcome. There's always a surprise.
Today, I'm off to Cork for O Bheal on Monday evening. I've got to travel back Monday evening, as I've a class to teach the next morning in Newry. I'll be meeting up with the organiser Paul Casey for a Palestinian poet's reading this evening in Cork - really looking forward to that!
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Hi Barbara - if you email the mp3 file I'll host it on the PI site and you can link to it.
Should make things a bit easier :)
Busy are we then???
BTW - I've started a lit bits section on Bookarazzi to publicise events like this. Pop along to the forum and add anything coming up. xxx
Sounds great, busying all over the island doing literary stuff! envy, envy!
Thanks David - I might just have it sorted today though... if not, I'll be sure to ask; thanks a million!
Cheers Debi - my head is still spinning!
Jon- this is just a brief interlude; I go back to being 'mum' soon enough ;)
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