April is Poetry Month in Limerick present “Resolving his Poetic Crisis: Michael Hartnett’s Ritualistic Divorce from An Spéirbhean” – An examination of Michael Hartnett’s extraordinary poem, “A Falling Out”, where he casts aside the Muse Goddess in order to move forward in the poetry of his final years. The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery...
Author and journalist DAVID RICE is this months guest at The Thursday Forum, Thursday 29th Feb 7pm at The Whitehouse Bar, 52 O’Connell St., Limerick. he will discuss his new book The Sundered Children, a book of 30 essays written by notable people dealing with the problem of integrated education, especially in Northern Ireland. Chapters in the book...
Join us at The Limerick Writers’ Centre for our new monthly event: THE THURSDAY FORUM. Engage in lively discussions and debates with leading literary figures, starting this month with renowned journalist and author Tommy Conlon. Event Details: Date: Thursday, 30th November Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Venue: The Whitehouse Bar, 52 O’Connell St., Limerick...
REFLECTIONS ON RICHARD WILBUR’S INTERVIEW Everyone seems to be able to write a poem nowadays. Everyone can arm themselves with a pen and let their feelings flow on a piece of paper, creating random separate verses, pretending to have the aspect of a poem. And the culprit of all this seems to be an excessive use...
