Revival Press, Limerick are proud to publish four poetry titles during April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2024. First up on the 5th April 7.30pm in The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Square is ‘Weeds United’ from Mike MacDomhnaill. Bi-lingual writer Mike Mac Domhnaill has five books to his name in both Gaelic and English. In this collection, which consists mainly of poems in English, he has a six poem sequence reflecting on the Covid pandemic and an eleven poem sequence which captures a stay in the wondrous Burren of North Clare.
Next up Friday 12th April, again in The People’s Museum of Limerick, Pery Square at 7.30pm is ‘Ar An Leoithne / On The Breeze’ from another bi-lingual writer Thomas Collins /Tomás Ó Coileáin. Collins (Tomás Ó Coileáin) is a writer, teacher, poetry editor, father, and semi-retired goalkeeper from Limerick City. His debut collection in English, “Inside Out”, was published by Revival Press in 2020. Poems in Irish and English have appeared in Comhar, Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad, The Stony Thursday Book, Revival Poetry Journal, The Ogham Stone, Scothsmaointe Gan Smál, and chapbooks from the Stanzas creative writing collective.
On Friday 19th in The People’s Museum of Limerick 7.30pm there is a very special poetry book been launched ‘Slipstreaming – In the West of Ireland’ by the two founding fathers of The Stony Thursday Book Jim Burke and John Liddy. This much anticipated collection is a collaboration of their two voices “finding harmony” with each other in poems that are subtle, spare and precise. Jim Burke, was born in Limerick, Ireland, where he continues to live today. In 1975 he and John Liddy co-founded The Stony Thursday Book, one of Ireland’s longest-running poetry journals. After an invitation from John and Liam Liddy in 2005 to become involved in a 30th Anniversary edition of The Stony Thursday Book, Jim rekindled his earlier interest in poetry and signed up for a distance-learning course at the University of Lancaster, where he studied with Elizabeth Burns and Jane Eagland. John Liddy, born Youghal, County Cork, grew up in Limerick, took a degree with The University of Wales, lives in Madrid where he worked as a Teacher/Librarian. Between Boundaries (Nora McNamara, printed by The Limerick Leader (1974) and Arias of Consolation (Revival Press,2021/22) he has published twelve Poetry books, a collection of stories for children Cuentos Cortos en Ingles: Los Sonidos de los Vocales (Bruno, 2011), edited with Dominic Taylor 1916-2016 An Anthology of Reactions and Let Us Rise 1919-2019 An Anthology Commemorating The Limerick Soviet 1919.
Finall on April 26th renowned Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock launches ‘Headlines‘ in The Peoples Museum of Limerick, Pery Square at 7.30pm.Gabriel Rosenstock is a poet, tankaist, haikuist, children’s author, playwright, essayist, short story writer, novelist, translator and in the words of Hugh MacDiarmid, ‘a champion of forlorn causes’.
All books are available on-line at www.limerickwriterscentre.com