White House Poetry Revival Wed 3rd May 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 3rd. May. 2006 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is John Menaghan from the United States.

John Menaghans first book of poems,"All the Money in the World," appearedIn 1999 from Salmon Poetry and was described by "Kirkus Reviews" as "an auspicious beginning"
and the poems as "quite wonderful."His second book, "She Alone," a book-length sequence tracingan imaginary woman's journey from birth to death and beyond, will appearfrom Salmon in April 2006. He has won awards for his poetry, including an Academy ofAmerican Poets Prize. In addition, he has translated poems by Baudelaire,Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Valéry and published a number of thesetranslations.He has read his work all across across the U.S.from New York to Honolulu as well as in Ireland and Hungary. In Summer2004, he did five readings around Ireland: in the Temple BarReading Series, at the Irish Writers Centre, at the UCC Summer School, atthe IASIL conference at UCG, and at Oideas Gael. In earlier years he hason several occasions read at the Writers' Centre as well as at theGalway Arts Centre and at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer School.He completed a B.A. at Boston College and an M.A. in Creative Writing atSyracuse University and then went on to do a Ph.D. at U.C., Berkeley. Heis now a full professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles andboth founder and Director of both an Irish Studies and a Summer in Ireland program there.

While in Ireland he will give a number of other readings in Donegal and Galway.


As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.
Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogger.com/ Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/

Poem Of The Week 'It Comes With The Profession' by Ronan Browne

It comes with the profession


He counted every morsel that was given by his wife
or taken from his table.
“Do you want the bill now or later,” he expires,
Setting off this expenditure of unearned breath
against the pleasure of unsettling a guest
who might otherwise presume too much
and leave him with a deficit.


C Ronan Browne 2003

Ronan Browne is from Dublin. When in Limerick he reads at the White House Poetry Revival.

Podcast Of Last Weeks Show - 26th April 2006

To listen back to an edited Podcast of last weeks White House Poetry Revival - 26th April 2006 - with special guest poet from the Kerry Gaeltacht Dairena Ní Chinneide in association with Foras na Gaeilge, click the link below:


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Diary Dates: April 30th - May 6th 2006

Tuesday, May 2nd @ 7 pm Poetry Ireland in Association with Dedalus Press Presents Mutsuo Takahashi & Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Along with English translations read by Nobuaki Tochigi, Mitsuko Ohno & Frank Sewellplus the launch of Mutsuo Takahashi¹s On Two Shores: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus),a bilingual Japanese-English edition translated by Mitsuko Ohno & Frank SewellDamer Hall, St. Stephen¹s Green, Dublin 2. For further information contact Poetry Ireland T: 01-4789974 F: 01-4780205 E: management@poetryireland.ie
Wednesday May 3rd @9.00pm White House Poetry Revival. This weeks guest poet is John Menaghan from the United States. John Menaghans first book of poems,"All the Money in the World," appearedIn 1999 from Salmon Poetry and was described by "Kirkus Reviews" as "an auspicious beginning" and the poems as "quite wonderful."His second book, "She Alone," a book-length sequence tracingan imaginary woman's journey from birth to death and beyond, will appearfrom Salmon in April 2006. He has won awards for his poetry, including an Academy ofAmerican Poets Prize. In addition, he has translated poems by Baudelaire,Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Valéry and published a number of thesetranslations.He has read his work all across across the U.S.from New York to Honolulu as well as in Ireland and Hungary. In Summer2004, he did five readings around Ireland: in the Temple BarReading Series, at the Irish Writers Centre, at the UCC Summer School, atthe IASIL conference at UCG, and at Oideas Gael. In earlier years he hason several occasions read at the Writers' Centre as well as at theGalway Arts Centre and at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer School.He completed a B.A. at Boston College and an M.A. in Creative Writing atSyracuse University and then went on to do a Ph.D. at U.C., Berkeley. Heis now a full professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles andboth founder and Director of both an Irish Studies and a Summer in Ireland program there.
While in Ireland he will give a number of other readings in Donegal and Galway.
As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.
For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409. Email http://www.blogger.com/ Website http://www.blogger.com/
Blog http://www.blogger.com/ Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/

Friday May 5th 9.00pm there will be a poetry reading by American poet John Menaghan and Derry-born, Galway-based poet John Walsh at Sheridan's Wine Bar, Galway. John Menaghan was born in New Jersey to Irish-American parents. He teaches literature and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he also serves as Director of both the Irish Studies and Summer in Ireland programs and runs the annual Irish Cultural Festival. His most recent collection of poems, 'She Alone' - a book-length poetic sequence, which traces the life of an imaginary woman from birth to death and beyond - is published by Salmon Poetry.

John Walsh was born in Derry. He lived in Germany for many years, but has now settled in Galway. He is an accomplished singer-songwriter, and MC and organiser of the hugely successful North Beach Nights poetry slam. His poems have been published in the Black Mountain Review, Flaming Arrows and Crannog magazine. His first collection of poems, 'Between Morning and the Noon-Day Tide', is forthcoming from Marram Press. All welcome. For further details phone 087-6431748.

White House Poetry Revival Wed 26th April 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 26th April. 2006 9.00pm

Foras na Gaeilge to sponsor poetry revival at White House.

The White House Poets in association with Foras na Gaeilge presents a series of bi-lingual poetry readings commencing Wednesday 26th April at 9.00pm in the White House pub, O Connell Street , Limerick

The series begins with special guest poet Dairena Ní Chinnéide

Dairena Ní Chinnéide hails from the West Kerry Gaeltacht of Corca Dhuibhne.She has a BA in Communication Studies from DCU and a Higher Diploma inTranslation Studies from UCG. Dairena writes in the Irish language andtranslates immediately into English. She is published in Feasta, Comhar, GonUige Sin, An Sagart and recently took part in the international poetryexchange of Words Unbound with French, English, Belgian and Irish poets.Her work can be seen at dairenanichinneide.com and her first poetrycollection "An Trodaí agus Dánta Eile/The Warrior and Other Poems" is just published by Cló Iar Chonnachta.

Over the coming months many more bi lingual poets are booked to read including Gregoir O Duill, Louis De Paor, Cathal O Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Cristoir O Flynn, Paddy Bushe, Gabriel Fitzmaurice plus many others.

The White House Poetry Revival has being going now for almost three years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan, the man behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continues to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. He sees the involvement of Foras na Gaeilge as a recognition of the work they have put in to making the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.
Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/
Blog http://whitehousepoets..blogspot.com/ Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com

Poem Of The Week 'Taking Stock' by John Liddy

Taking Stock
to Jim

“Travellers, there is no path,
paths are made by walking.”
–Antonio Machado

1.
With half the Appian Way
behind us, let me conduct
some honest inventory,
measure what is still intact.

My sons are quiffing-up
for dance floors barred to me,
their mother readies her cinema
Self to leave me to my reality.

I watch in awe how life slips
through my fingers, subtle
as needles knitting new stories,
know why the inevitable

Is not worth the effort of futile
contemplation, why we endure
the weight on thin shoulders,
love on despite erosion.

2.
Allow me to fix on the personal,
the art in what is uniquely found
because of casual destiny,
simple scenes but universal.

That first taste of deception—
footing the miserable road home
out of Dublin after Van's
walk-off and we still listening.

Or that bicycle tour of the West,
noted but lost, still haunting
like Connemara fields,
our tent a classroom of free-talk

Without teachers amidst the Aran
schoolhouse ruin, the stroll back
from MacPhadraig's public house
after a night of music and craic

'As gaelge' between the famine
dead lit by a touchable moon,
or those abandoned boots beside
a sparse tree in Spiddal.

3
Other matters demand attention
but we choose what to ignore,
the private cravings of the heart,
a lame excuse for war.

No. I will leave them aside
to concentrate on bare essentials.
Such stock makes truth of our lives,
not headlined but what survives.

I have paced enough of the house
like a dog in search of its spot
to bury its bone, it is time to sit
and write this down.

Diary Dates: April 23rd - April 29th 2006

Wednesday 26th April @ 9.00pm The White House Poets in association with Foras na Gaeilge presents a series of bi-lingual poetry readings in the White House pub, O Connell Street , Limerick
The series begins with special guest poet Dairena Ní Chinnéide
Dairena Ní Chinnéide hails from the West Kerry Gaeltacht of Corca Dhuibhne.She has a BA in Communication Studies from DCU and a Higher Diploma inTranslation Studies from UCG. Dairena writes in the Irish language andtranslates immediately into English. She is published in Feasta, Comhar, GonUige Sin, An Sagart and recently took part in the international poetryexchange of Words Unbound with French, English, Belgian and Irish poets.Her work can be seen at dairenanichinneide.com and her first poetrycollection "An Trodaí agus Dánta Eile/The Warrior and Other Poems" is justpublished by Cló Iar Chonnachta.

Over the coming months many more bi lingual poets are booked to read including Gregoir O Duill, Louis De Paor, Cathal O Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Cristoir O Flynn, Paddy Bushe, Gabriel Fitzmaurice plus many others.

The White House Poetry Revival has being going now for almost three years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan, the man behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continues to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. He sees the involvement of Foras na Gaeilge as a recognition of the work they have put in to making the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.
Email http://www.blogger.com/ Website http://www.blogger.com/
Blog http://www.blogger.com/ Podcast: http://www.blogger.com/

Thursday 27th April @ 9.30pm North Beach Nights presents Trish Casey (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2004) Kevin Higgins (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2003) Stephen Murray (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2005) and sponsored by Poetry Ireland John W. Sexton short story writer, dramatist, children's novelist, radio scriptwriter, broadcaster and performer. At BK's Winebar,Spanish Parade, Galway. Info: 091 593290.

Thursday 27th April @ 11.30am Cuirt Debut presents the Over the Edge Showcase
Featuring Celeste Auge, Edward Boyne, Jim Mullarkey, Sheila Phelan and Lorna Shaughnessy
Town Hall Theatre, Galway Town Hall Theatre, Galway Courthouse Square Galway Phone: +353 91 56977

Thursday 27th April @ 8.00pm. The Munster Literature Centre invite you to Poetry in Dialogue Japanese Poetry Reading A reading from two leading Japanese poets, Mutsuo Takahashi and Yasuhiro Yotsumoto along with translations. Amalgamation of tradition and modernism and intersection of two places, Ireland and Japan. Admission Free. Venue: Tigh Fili, MacCurtain St, Cork. Info: 021-4509274 info@tighfili.com

Friday 28th April - Monday 1st May Strokestown International Poetry Festival. Seamus Heaney opens the Strokestown International Poetry Festival The Lineup includes Heaney, who will be reading from his new collection, District and Circle,Nuala Ní DhomhnaillPeter SirrPaula MeehanGabriel FitzmauriceTheo DorganEnda WyleyMichael O’DeaNuala Reilly among the Irish poets. Maura Dooley, Charles Bennett and James Greene will be over from Britain, and Aonghas MacNeacail, the Gaelic poet from Skye, will also read. Cork poet Greg Delanty, who is based in Vermont, will be back to read from his new Collected Poems. Further Information: Paddy Bushe, Director, pbushe@eircom.net 087 2316814 or 066 94747123

Poetry Workshops with Kevin Higgins

A choice of three poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all commencing the week of May 8th. The tutor will be Kevin Higgins, whose first collection of poems, 'The Boy With No Face', published by Salmon in 2005, was short-listed for the Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. 'The Boy With No Face' was also Salmon Poetry's Bestselling Book of 2005, and is soon to be reprinted.
Kevin Higgins is an experienced workshop facilitator and many of his students have gone on to achieve publication success. Each workshop will run for eight weeks. They will take place on

Tuesday evenings, commencing May 9th, 7-8.30pm; on
Wednesday afternoons, commencing May 10th, 2-3.30pm; and on
Thursday afternoons, 2-3.30pm, commencing May 11th.

The Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon workshops are open to both complete beginners as well as those who've been writing for some time. The Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop, suitable for those who've participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published in magazines.Places must be paid for in advance.

To reserve a place contact Maeve Mulrennan at Galway Arts Centre on 091-565 886, call in to Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway, or e-mail maeve@galwayartscentre.ie

White House Poetry Revival Wed.19th April 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 19th April 2006 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Dublin resident poet Iggy Mc Govern.

Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine and lives in Dublin, where he is Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College. His poems have been published in journals in Ireland, Britain, Australia and the United States. Selected work has appeared in anthology and in the "Poetry In Motion" series on DART trains. He holds the McCrea Literary Award and the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry and he was the winner of the RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam in 2004. His first collection, The King of Suburbia, was published by The Dedalus Press in 2005.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets Blog Http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com
Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/
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Podcast Of Last Weeks Show - 12th April 2006

To listen back to a Podcast of last weeks White House Poetry Revival - 12th April 2006 - with special guest poet from Dublin Dermot Mc Garthy, click the link below



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Poem For Easter 'Easter Exultet' by James Broughton

Easter Exultet

Shake out your qualms.
Shake up your dreams.
Deepen your roots.
Extend your branches.
Trust deep water
and head for the open,
even if your vision
shipwrecks you.
Quit your addiction
to sneer and complain.
Open a lookout.
Dance on a brink.
Run with your wildfire.
You are closer to glory
leaping an abyss
than upholstering a rut.
Not dawdling.
Not doubting.
Intrepid all the way
Walk toward clarity.
At every crossroad
Be prepared
to bump into wonder.
Only love prevails.
En route to disaster
insist on canticles.
Lift your ineffable
out of the mundane.
Nothing perishes;
nothing survives;
everything transforms!
Honeymoon with Big Joy!

~ (C) James Broughton ~

(Sermons of the Big Joy)

James Broughton Biography
November 10, 1913 brought the birth of a poet, playwright, and filmmaker James Broughton. Considering himself "first and foremost a poet," Broughton earned most notoriety through his films.
More: http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/b/JBroughton_bio.html

Diary Dates April 15th - 21st 2006

EVENT:

Tuesday 18th April @ 7.30pmSchool of English Trinity College presentsMaurice Scully and Catherine WalshTo celebrate the publication of their new books. The reading will take place in the Teatar M. Ui Chadhain (204B)Admission free For further information E: philip.coleman@tcd.ie

Wednesday 19th April @ 6pm Dr Padovani will talk on SbarbaroRoom 4097The Arts Building Trinity College Dublin

Wednesday 19th April @ 9pm.The White House Poets meet every Wednesday in The White House Bar, 52 O'Connell Street, Limerick. The poetry reading is preceded by an open mic session commencing at 9pm. Complementary finger food is provided. This weeks guest poet is Iggy Mc Govern.
Contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 if you'd like to read for The White House Poets; e-mail whitehousepoets@eircom.net

Thursday 20th April @ 7pm Launch of Watermarks - a journal of new writing and art Liberty Hall with a reading and exhibition.The journal, edited and produced by members of UCD's English Literary Society, includes work by students of UCD, NCAD, IADT, Trinity College Dublin and Bray Institute for Further Education. Admission is free and all are welcome; for more information E: watermarks@campus.ie.

Friday 21st April @ 6pmAnthology Books Presents a reading byJoseph Woods and Paul GrattanFor further information contactCecilia Dougherty Anthology Books, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2T: 01- 635 1422 M: 086 0853504 E: publicity@anthologystore.com

Friday 21st April @ 6.30pm The Launch of Crannog, Galway's liveliest literary magazine, will be launched upstairs at the Crane Bar on Sea Rd., Galway. All welcome. Crannog 11, which features a cover byTom mathews will be available after that in Charlie Byrne's, Dubray's,Bell Book and Candle and NUIG bookshop, Galway or order from thewebsite www.crannogmagazine.com. €5.

White House Poetry Revival Wed. 12th April 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 12th April 2006 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Dermot McGarthy

Dermot McGarthy born was Dublin 1963. After graduating from U.C.D. IN 1987, he emigrated to London, where after a brief sojourn in banking, he indulged his greatest passion -travel. Dermot taught english in Southern and Eastern Europe before moving to Seoul, Sth Korea, where he taught politics and economics at University. Returning to Ireland in 1996, he joined D.I.T. where he lectures in Communications. Dermot began writing short stories in his teens, and has had some of these published. He began to seriously pursue the craft of poetry over the last five years. He published his first collection "Standing Room Only" in 2004 and is currently completing his second collection of poems to be entitled "Goldfish Logic" which he hopes to publish later this year.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 Email: http://www.blogger.com/ Web: http://www.blogger.com/ Blog: http://www.blogger.com/ Podcast: http://druidpaddy.blogmatrix.com/

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Podcast Of Last Weeks Reading - 5th April 2006

To listen back to last weeks White House Poetry Revival - 5th April 2006 - with special guest poet from Scotland Grant Mc Leman, click the link below


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Poem Of The Week 'Self Portrait' by Daniel P Quinn

Self Portrait

Sitting alone
with hand in hair
despair

Sitting
head tilted down
silent

Thinking
about
everything

familial connections
personal obligations
profession.

The distance necessary
Between
the connection
Between
the two.

The necessary necessities
are difficult.

When the grey light mixed with sleetish rain is little release
from depression:
financial or otherwise.

Daniel P. Quinns writing has appeared in Performing Arts Journal; The Herald News, Theatre Journal and The Italian Tribune. His play FANGS TO RICHES was presented at the Harold Clurman Theatre in NYC.In addition to his work as a writer, Mr. Quinn produced and directed the U.S. Premiere of Edward Bonds play STONE, a well received revival of Sophocles rarely produced tragedy THE WOMEN OF TRACHIS, the World Premiere of Daniel Gabriels SACCO & VANZETTI, the collage piece MIXED VOICES at the Art Awareness Festival and Edward Bonds DEREK (U.S. Premiere) at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, Lincoln Center.At the Irish Arts Center he produced Janet Nobles AWAY ALONE, Graham Reidâs REMEMBRANCE, and a revival of A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS by Malachy and Frank McCourt, among other works.His published letters have appeared in The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, Other Stages and Keynote magazine.

Podcast of last weeks show.

You can listen back to an edited verson of last weeks White House Poetry Revival when our special guest was Canadian born poet Sandra Bunting. Click the link below:

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Poem Of The Week 2 'Harold Pinter - Is He Dead?' by Eve Taylor

Harold Pinter - Is He Dead?

No! he's not.

But according to a 'Who Wants To be A Millionaire'
contestant,
he died 'very, very recently!'

He was sure he read it somewhere.
he definately died 'very, very recently!'.

But he didn't.
He just won the Nobel prize for literature
'very, very recently!'
- that's all.

Eve Taylor is nine 'very, very recently' and lives in Limerick.

White House Poetry Revival Wed. 5th April 2006

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 5th April 2006 9.00pm

This weeks special guest is Scottish poet Grant Mc Leman.

Born in 1952 in Glasgow and now living on the Ayrshire coast, Grant McLeman started writing in the 1970s, won 3 diplomas in the Scottish Open Poetry Competition, was published in several anthologies, then more or less stopped writing altogether.

In 2002, encouraged by the ‘Scottish Poet Laureate’ Edwin Morgan
who read and appraised some of his work, he resumed writing and
collaborated with the internationally renowned American photographer
Martin Lueders in producing three pieces for a U.S. cable T.V.
programme which broadcast them in different months in 2003.

He is currently honing his craft and experimenting with different
modes of poetic writing such as haiku and ‘cut-up’. He is also
interested in combining poetry with other art forms, although he
doesn’t deny its importance as a ‘stand alone’ art.

He has been recently invited to read at Bob Holman’s famous Bowery
Poetry Club in New York, a date which he intends to keep next time
he is in the U.S.

As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets Blog http://www.whitehousepoets.blogger.com/

Poem Of The Week 'Carborator' by Ronan Deevy

Carbotator

Chevrolet, Mustang, Capri, Mazeratti, Ferrari , Bentley, Mercedes, Volkswagen, GTO,
Mitsubishi, Nissan, Tranz-Am, Lamborghini,
Lincoln, B.M.W, Cortina, Cabriolet, Coupe.

Yes, it's always all about pure power.
Triple webber overhead carbs and variable valve timing, digitally monitored fuel injection,
direct nitrous oxcide port injected V6
with a hand made stainless steel side exit exhaust.

If only...If only I had my way
I would have a car.
I would have the car to end all cars
it would be called the ' Christ what the hell is that ' car,
it would stand one hundred and thirteen story's high
with tyres the size of Rael Madrid stadium.
It would be powered by Three-Mile Island
and it would have entire villages aboard.
It would be able to do a trillion miles a minuet.
It would also have a little sign on the back window
informing potential tailgaters that my other car is an Orion System.
It would be its own country.
Building it would use up every single world wide resource
including gold, coal, steel, iron, diamonds, oil, gas,
Aluminium, hotels and flags...
Flags sticking out of it everywhere to represent all the different nationalities
that lost their lives during construction.

But until I become the, all being , master of time, space and dimensions,
until the car ' Christ what the hell is that ' prohibition ends
I'll just have to settle for my bicycle.

Ronan Deevy is a performance poet from Limerick City

Diary Dates: April 2nd - April 8th 2006

EVENT:

Tuesday 4th April @ 7pm Poetry Ireland in association with Dedalus Press Present the launch of Gas Light & Coke by Fergus Allen Damer Hall St. Stephen's GreenDublin 2
For further information contact Poetry Ireland:-T: 01-4789974 E-Mail management@poetryireland.ie

Tuesday 4th April @ 8pm A Life in a Day of Desmond O'Grady- A film by Adam Wyeth & Keith Walsh.
This screening will take place at Tigh Fili Arts Centre, MacCurtain St, Cork. This is a free event.
For more information contact: Leslie Ryan, Tigh Fili Arts Centre, Tel 021-4509274info@tighfili.com or adamwyeth@yahoo.co.uk

Tuesday 4th April @7.30pm An Evening of Poetry and Music. A gala evening of Poetry and song to celebrate the special connection between Waterford and Newfoundland. The Chapel at WIT's College Street Campus .There will be wine, minerals and nibbles following the event. For further information E: jsimmons@wit.ie

Tuesday 4th April @ 5pm Goldcrest Falling - Launch of a new collection of poetry by Dr. John EnnisWaterford Institute of Technology College Street Campus Waterford

Wednesday 5th April @ 6pmThe Italian Department, Trinity College invites you toAN(N)AMARIA - A poetry Reading by Anamaria Crowe Serrano and Annamaria FerramoscaTrinity College, College Green, Dublin. 2Arts Faculty Room 5052

Wednesday 5th April @ 6.30pm A commemorative reading from the recently published collected poems and translations by Sean Dunne Featuring Michael Coady, Peter Fallon, Jim Nolan and others. Waterford City Library, Lady Lane Waterford. Admission Free.

Wednesday 5th April @9pm The White House Poets meet every Wednesday in The White House Bar, 52 O'Connell Street, Limerick. The poetry reading is preceded by an open mic session commencing at 9pm. Complementary finger food is provided. This weeks guest poet is Grant Mc Leman from Scotland.

Contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 if you'd like to read for The White House Poets; e-mail whitehousepoets@eircom.net

Friday 7th April @ 9pmAn Evening of Japanese Poetry Sheridan's Wine Bar14-16 Church Yard Galway. For further details contact Kevin Higgins T: 087 6431748

Saturday 8th April @ 9.30am-5.00pm North Beach Nights, Galway presents A One-Day Performance Poetry Workshop with TRISH CASEY at BKs Wine Bar, Spanish Parade. For registration and more information contact: 086 4046425

Saturday 8th April @ 6pm Siamsa Tire, Tralee. Poetry with Dairena Ní Chinnéide & Tommy Frank O'Connor. Two of Kerry's celebrated poets in a bi-lingual performance.