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RTÉ News
01-05-2025
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Poetry Day Ireland 2025: May Day by Gabriel Rosenstock
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read May Day by Gabriel Rosenstock below. May Day A 'found poem' from the Carmina Gadelica On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, 'bho baile gu beinn,' from townland to moorland, from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe, and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.
Irish Independent
01-05-2025
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- Irish Independent
Poetry and flowers in celebration of May Day in Sligo
Everyone is being asked to bring a poem with them that they you love and maybe some wild flowers – any flowers – to mark the May Day tradition of bringing in flowers. 'The poem can be any one you like; one that you wrote yourself, one that was written for you, one that reminds you of a loved one, one you shared at a wedding – maybe your own! In any language, written out, printed out, drawn, - we want to fill our floormap of Sligo. It can even be a Yeats poem! We are delighted to encourage poets and lovers of poetry into the Building on this very special day,' said a spokesperson. The event is being supported by Poetry Ireland for Poetry Day Ireland 2025. There is also a Poetry Supper on Friday May 2nd. ATU students will share their work at an open mic at 6pm. Supper is served at 7.30pm with poet in residence Vona Groarke and TS Eliot short-listed poet Gustav Parker Hibbett.
RTÉ News
01-05-2025
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- RTÉ News
Poetry Day Ireland 2025: I Carve a Future into the Year by Jo Bear
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read I Carve a Future into the Year by Jo Bear below. I Carve a Future into the Year Annually, the rewilding. As one, the hills & mountains blink away their sleep—irises pink-petaled & dewed. I have circled again to this beginning, no longer flighty child nor phasing youngster so desperate to disappear. This, the month of my birth, renews a certain faith in mutability: we will return from the brittle days, land & body both. Hunted as I am, I rarely indulge in the lush imaginary of my own days ahead, & yet I have pictured the city at dawn, too early for fear, how I might move like a myth made body while the streets fill with feathers. In the sky & the green, all is shot through with cleansing fire. I can smell it on my skin: the roving circles a bird makes to gauge its ground before alighting. Poetry Day Ireland 2025 will take place on Thursday, 1st May - find out more here.
RTÉ News
01-05-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
Poetry Day Ireland 2025: Hawthorn by Stephen de Búrca
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read Hawthorn by Stephen de Búrca below. Hawthorn I can see the hawthorn tree wind-angled inland in the field of lazy beds that bulge like ribs. Maybe the tree had yet to root itself while she – nameless, undocumented, sustained by dried dulse – felt her spade jolt from buried chunks of Conamara granite, her family ar an bád bán or an long chónra. With callus-lashed palms, she'd have to dig them out. The field ripples and I pick a wild orchid from the tree's base knowing full-well it's bad luck. April tacks for Bealtaine, the only day a hawthorn can be cut down, before the white petals are tinged pink. Fuchsia and montbretia lend a sweetness to the coastal breeze, the morning dew lingering on the orchid – God knows what I'll do with it. First published in Threshold, 2022
RTÉ News
25-04-2025
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- RTÉ News
Poetry Day Ireland 2025: Duplex by Stuart Barnes
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read Duplex by Stuart Barnes below. Duplex Cleft phlox (Phlox bifida) In spring I fly open and burn pale purple, petal-edges curving like C clef. Curve over pebbles, my little C clef I sing to the skipper (which flocks, which flocks), icing for the skipper (Which phlox? Which phlox?), explosion for root rot, powdery mildew. My taproot powders erosion's eye. Still, you log and you crop and you dam and you mine. You log and you crop———I damn you to mine my oval emerald almanac. My emeralds go across fall———the knack outrages you like the cocklebur's sting. I'm outrageously bright and bursting to fly open in spring and burn pale purple. First published in Modron Magazine, 2024
