What: poetry reading with special guest Ciaran O'Driscoll
When: Wednesday, 13th Jan 2010, 9,30pm
Where: The White House pub, O'Connell Street, Limerick
This week at our weekly reading series we welcome Kilkenny-born, multi-award winning poet Ciaran O'Driscoll, who will be reading from his sixth and latest full collection of poems, Life Monitor. The night will be complete as always with an open-mic reading, for which anyone is welcome to read and is encouraged to do so. Complimentary finger food will also be provided.
Speaking to O'Driscoll prior to his reading, the poet says ‘Life Monitor’, the title poem of the collection, sees him visiting “his thirteen-year-old son’s bedroom at night to check his breathing,” and realising “this is a routine which has persisted out of pure habit since the boy’s infancy,” when he’d heard “a lot of warnings about cot death. Throughout the remainder of the collection, then, he explores the idea of poetry as a kind of life monitor – he says, “checking the health of the poet himself and the world to which he belongs.”
The subjects in his book range widely from the poet’s own maturing state to messages of comfort from speaking trees, and from wry regret at domestic woes to celebrations of hope. Copies of his book, of course, will also be for sale on the night, which O’Driscoll will happily sign with personalised messages.
O’Driscoll was born in Kilkenny but has resided in Limerick for the past twenty-three years. He remembers coming and says “it was a bit like God, who said You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” He got involved in Limerick’s poetry scene upon arrival, running the Limerick Poetry Workshop and editing the Limerick Poetry Broadsheet. Today he is a member of the annual Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival and has edited several important poetry books.
Over the years O’Driscoll’s many awards have included a Bursary in Literature from the Arts Council, the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry, and the James Joyce Prize, and he is a member of Aosdana.
So we look forward to seeing you this Wednesday for a social and poetic evening.
When: Wednesday, 13th Jan 2010, 9,30pm
Where: The White House pub, O'Connell Street, Limerick
This week at our weekly reading series we welcome Kilkenny-born, multi-award winning poet Ciaran O'Driscoll, who will be reading from his sixth and latest full collection of poems, Life Monitor. The night will be complete as always with an open-mic reading, for which anyone is welcome to read and is encouraged to do so. Complimentary finger food will also be provided.
Speaking to O'Driscoll prior to his reading, the poet says ‘Life Monitor’, the title poem of the collection, sees him visiting “his thirteen-year-old son’s bedroom at night to check his breathing,” and realising “this is a routine which has persisted out of pure habit since the boy’s infancy,” when he’d heard “a lot of warnings about cot death. Throughout the remainder of the collection, then, he explores the idea of poetry as a kind of life monitor – he says, “checking the health of the poet himself and the world to which he belongs.”
The subjects in his book range widely from the poet’s own maturing state to messages of comfort from speaking trees, and from wry regret at domestic woes to celebrations of hope. Copies of his book, of course, will also be for sale on the night, which O’Driscoll will happily sign with personalised messages.
O’Driscoll was born in Kilkenny but has resided in Limerick for the past twenty-three years. He remembers coming and says “it was a bit like God, who said You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” He got involved in Limerick’s poetry scene upon arrival, running the Limerick Poetry Workshop and editing the Limerick Poetry Broadsheet. Today he is a member of the annual Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival and has edited several important poetry books.
Over the years O’Driscoll’s many awards have included a Bursary in Literature from the Arts Council, the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry, and the James Joyce Prize, and he is a member of Aosdana.
So we look forward to seeing you this Wednesday for a social and poetic evening.
Hi Sometime at your convenience i would like to read for the White house Poets. I was published in the White house last year and aslo in Crannog and Galway NUIs Ropes unravelled and Lapwing launched a collection for me last August. I hava been published to in Fortnight, Rivine, The Drumlin and nearly all the literary publications as well as winning the Poet of Fingal twice The Tom O'Shea Trophy The Nora Fahy (from which i was disqualified because the winning poem was published elsewhere) There's more but that's too much but I remember b eing in a writer's group with ciaran o' Driscol in the Glentworth Hotel many years back Still better wait unti the frost and thefog is gone
ReplyDeleteTommy Murray http://community.meath.ie/meathwrites