Cosmic Poetry - A WAF Event - Sunday 29/5/11

Cosmic Poetry - A Wicklow Arts Festival Event


Following the success of last year’s session, Wicklow Writers bring their poems once again to the Cosmic Garden, and invite you to bring along yours too.


Enjoy a cuppa before blast off, and bring a cushion. There may be some drumming, too!


Sun, 29 May at 11:15

An Tairseach Ecology Centre - left thro’ gates of Dominican Convent, Wicklow Town

Check out Wicklow Arts Festival new website for more great events

http://www.wicklowartsfestival.ie/

Next meeting - Tuesday 10th May in Gorey Library Meeting Room

We are pleased to announce that the Gorey Library has offered us a meeting room in their new, state of the art building.


From Tuesday, 10th May 2011, Gorey Writers will meet every second and forth Tueaday from 7.30 to 8.45 in one of the airy meeting rooms.

Look forward to seeing old and new members at our lively sessions

Gorey Library Nearly Open

Good News! Gorey Library is nearly open for business. We are trying to contact the powers-that-be to establish if their offer of a meeting room still stands.

In the meantime, here is a poem by Carol Boland

The Secret

Does it burn 

Carol Boland



leave lashes on your back

or smack like the crack of kindling

a gunshot on a Sunday afternoon.

Does it pierce your skin

sting like a nettle

or can you smudge it better

with a dock weed.

And when your tongue is tied



to the struts of your mouth

does it smother the flame

can you snuff it out

or does it leave an emptiness

a hole in your chest

from a spear thrown off kilter.

And in the dreaming time

does it sleep behind your eye lid

deflecting the veiled light

like a cornea.