Saturday Poetry at the Grove Library, Peppermint Grove

Helen Hagemann’s Saturday Poetry Workshop this week 3rd March @ 1.30pm-3.30pm is called ‘Motherland’. The class will look at ways of writing the heartfelt and personal aspects our own country. Class involves further writing exercises on the patriotic/ political & historical heritage of one's original "motherland'. We will be reading and discussing poems by Dorothea Mackellar, Hyllus Maris, Amy Witting, Jo Shapcott (UK), Dennis O'Driscoll (IE),...

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Poem for the Day - Visiting Loughcrew (from the Irish Suite)

Visiting Loughcrew Shock of blue in the sky after light misty rain. The fields and drumlins are a skin of green. It's warm today for a hillclimb to a strange cairn of Megalithic art. The woman at the kiosk hands me the key, tied to a large orange flashlight. As if this is a passage back in time. I've half-circled Ireland before arriving. Swerved trucks, narrow...

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