Poetry at Five Lamps Arts Festival in Dublin

Dublin poet Alan Jude Moore is reading, along with Arvon Poetry Award winner Jean O'Brien, on Thursday 19th April in Liberty Hall as part of this year's Five Lamps Arts Festival. Admission is free and doors open 6pm.

Alan Jude Moore's most recent collection of poetry is Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry, 2010). He is widely published in Ireland, the UK and the USA, and translations of his work have been published in Italy, Russia and Turkey.

Moore has taken part in readings recently at The Troubadour Club, London; the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg; Dom Tsvetaeva in Moscow; the 2011 Dublin Book Festival; the 2010 Istanbul International Poetry Festival; & at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California.

Issue #1 of The Burning Bush 2

Open publication - Free publishing - More ireland

1st May

 

Refoundation

Shine light on the edge of the square
and there a clutch of the creatures
brass necks and ostrich eyes
guffaw grins and slapped sore thighs


walk without waking through the lanes
the baton charge and horseback riders
weighing up with pounds and ounces
how to stop these kilograms


from taking hold and spreading over
the marble halls and archways     now
calculate in museums of science
the length and breadth of grotesques


the passing down of tiny charters
the illness of self delusion     creeping
quicksand rising around
bonded children’s necks


shine a light on the square
illumination and refoundation
impossible words to comprehend
for old grey men with ostrich heads

Next...

That's 2010 almost over and done with. It has been a gas. Anyway, next year, for anyone interested, after a January of inactivity, I'll be reading in Pittsburgh, PA and Washington DC in early February; Dublin and Galway in March and somewhere else outside the Pale - not sure where yet - in the spring as part of a Salmon Poetry reading series. All the details will be posted, as usual, when available.

It's the 30th Anniversary of Salmon Poetry, by the way, in 2011 so keep an eye on their web site, http://www.salmonpoetry.com/ for news of publications and events throughout the year.

Happy new year to you and yours, have a good one.

bye bye boom