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'Reality Check' by Dennis O Driscoll

category national | arts and media | other press author Tuesday November 20, 2007 11:44author by C Murray Report this post to the editors

Bit of Poetry and Some Active Blogs for Poets

" Yet we have an understanding with the weather:
Whenever squalls end and sun returns with
Friendly fire, we would forgive it anything"

(From 'Skywriting' )

'Reality Check' was launched on the Fourth of September 2007 in the Royal College of Surgeons
and it was nice to see the luminaries and the establishment having to queue and snake through
the room to get their copy signed (!)

The book is in two sections, the first 17 short poems and series ;and the second is a beautiful
long poem called 'Skywriting' which is all about light and the sun threading his way over
our Irish map.

Dennis O Driscoll
Dennis O Driscoll



I am including a you-tube of Dennis O Driscoll reading one of the poems at the launch.

Some of the poems that particularly delight are:

'Cassandra'
'Meeting points'
I-VII of 'Reality Check'
and 'SkyWriting' (Section 2)

For those interested in poetic activities in the Pale and beyond, Poetry Ireland run a newly opened
Forum and Guest Blog; and Fred Johnson up in Galway has been using the newswire to
advertise launches/Readings and critiques for some time.

http://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/guest-blog
http://www.poetryireland/forum
http://dennisodriscoll.com

Sun is an old Stalwart who:

"Adding layers of intrigue and
Silence to dirt roads wandering
off the map"

Irish Writers online:- http://www.irishwriters-online.com
A poem:- http://dennisodriscoll.com/poetry/missing-god

 
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