Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Taking poetry on the road with Doire Press Reading Tour, 'Flesh and Blood'


The FLESH AND BLOOD Doire Press Reading Tour, featuring poets Michael Whelan, Simon Lewis and myself, begins tomorrow (Thursday, 3rd Oct) in Galway at 6:30pm in the City Library. The event is free and everyone is welcome! There will be wine too, I'm told. The tour will continue on to Belfast, Dublin and Cork. Dates, venues and times below and the short description from the FLESH AND BLOOD page on Facebook:


GALWAY CITY LIBRARY - Thursday 3rd October, 6.30pm
(postponed until November due to Storm Lorenzo, date tba)

BELFAST CITY LIBRARY - Tuesday 15th October, 3.30pm

DUBLIN, THE VINTAGE ROOM, WORKMANS CLUB - Wednesday 23rd October, 6.30pm

CORK CITY LIBRARY – Wednesday, 6 November, 6:30pm


You are all very welcome to come and hear Doire Press poets Emily E. Cullen, Simon Lewis and Michael Whelan read from their new collections, as they tour Ireland with FLESH AND BLOOD. Hear some fine words, and enjoy a glass of wine with us at Galway City Library!



Reading from CONDITIONAL PERFECT Emily Cullen travels the veins of being both artist and mother in an increasingly technological landscape, from the sublime mundanity of ordinary life, to the legacy and beauty of the harp; in AH, MEN!, Simon Lewis explores what it means to be a man in a culture where roles and expectations have shifted, with poems that speak of a desire to connect and its frustrations, of relationships with friends and family, and the small ministries of love; soldier-poet Michael J. Whelan reveals the personal losses and futility of war in RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, which visits past conflicts and current bloodshed, rich also with a revelatory beauty in nature. From music, to encounter, to peace, these three distinct voices talk of their intimate experience of the world, and reach to the heart of things.



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