Every so often someone comes along to the Poetry Room expecting to see the poet whose work we are discussing. We can’t promise Paul Durcan this month but he is on his way! The poet, whose recitals are the stuff of legend, will be reading in Newcastle on 10 June 2010 [www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/]
To get in the mood, come along to Blackwell’s bookshop, Newcastle next Tuesday 4 May from 6.15pm-8pm where we will be enjoying some of Durcan’s extraordinary poems which are full of wit and risk and wisdom and have earned him – in the words of Derek Mahon - an almost iconic place in contemporary Irish poetry.
The poems we will be concentrating on in particular are:
Going Home to Mayo, Winter 1949
[irishcultureandcustoms.com/Poetry/Durcan.html]
The Woman Who Keeps Her Breasts in the Back Garden
Death in a Graveyard: Pere Lachaise
Raymond of the Rooftops [blueridgejournal.com/poems/pd2-raymond.htm]
Sport
The Virgin and Child
A Spin in the Rain with Seamus Heaney
If you don’t have a copy of the book, photocopies of the poems will be available on the night. As ever new faces as well as familiar ones are warmly welcome. Hope to see you (yes, you!) there.
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