Irish poets centre stage in Druid’s new Coole series
Druid’s Coole Park Poetry series, which began last year, will continue this month with a series of 10 new short films featuring the work of poets Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, Séamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paula Meehan.
The poems, which will premiere online from next Wednesday, May 19, will be read by Tommy Tiernan, Aaron Monaghan, Seán McGinley, Marty Rea, Brian Doherty, Venetia Bowe, Jade Jordan, Andrew Bennett, Rory Nolan, Marie Mullen and Clare Dunne.
A new film will be released weekly and all are free to view on the YouTube channels of Druid and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The films were shot by Matthew Thompson in Cooke Park, and the project was made with the support of the US-based Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
The poems are The Echo at Coole by Austin Clarke, The Hospital by Patrick Kavanagh, Another September by Thomas Kinsella, an excerpt from Station Island by Seamus Heaney, A Disused Shed in County Wexford by Derek Mahon, The Architectural Metaphor by Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, The Lost Art of Letter Writing by Eavan Boland, Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish’s Priest’s Parlour by Paul Durcan, Cathleen by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and This is not a confessional poem by Paula Meehan.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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