and the launch of Five Words
The guest poets this Anniversary week were poets published in Ó Bhéal’s first publication, ‘Five Words’. Contributors to the collection read to a full house, and after the usual open-mic session the celebrations continued … a few comments from the evening can be heard here.
Five Word McNamara Slam – 14th April
Sinéad Ryan, Gerry McNamara, Tommy Livingston, Alice, George Harding, Alan Coakley, Cliff Wedgbury, Lucy, Annie Power.
Readings from Five Words Vol I
Jennifer Matthews
Downriver
Sinéad Ryan
Stroke
Anne-Marie Grandfield
Weeping Willow
Alan Coakley reading Annie Power’s poem
Called Summer
Finbarr O’Mahony
Untitled
Patricia Walsh
Below Water
Patricia Walsh
Being an Artist
Séamus Harrington
Untitled
Daw Harding
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Annie Power reading Alan Coakley’s poem
Untitled
Edward O’Dwyer
Epitaph to a Night
Tommy Livingston
Memory
Earth Spirits’ Poem
Joe Sweeney
(extract from) A New Slant
Edward O’Dwyer
Couple Downstairs
Teri Murray
The Street of Booksellers
Seline McCarney
A Tour of Ireland
Patricia Walsh
The Truth Hurts Less
Billy Ramsell
Untitled
Paddy Doyle
For My Grandmother
Séamus Harrington
Free Downloads
Sinéad Ryan
The Stool
Santa Claus has a Pet Sheep
Ronan Deevey
When you walked away from me
Daw Harding
The Music of the Stars
Alan Coakley
The Rose (Anne-Marie Grandfield’s poem)
A Modest Position
Tom Jordan
Untitled
Alan Titley
An t-iontas (The Wonder)
Aaron Lewis quotes Marianne Williamson
‘Our Deepest Fear is that We Are Powerful Beyond Measure’
