Poetry in Conversation

Join Bernadette Gallagher, author of The Risen Tree (Revival Press, 2024) for a relaxed workshop to discover stories within poems from the distant past to the present day. Taking place on Thursday, 1st May, from 11am to 12:30pm at Cork City Library.

Enheduanna is believed to be the first named writer for which we have evidence. Her work is recorded on clay tablets from Mesopotamia. Homer appears on our timeline more than 1000 years later. It is thought that we write to try to understand our lives in this wondrous world that we inhabit. When we read poems whether ancient or contemporary we are finding out something about lives that have been lived up to the point of the writing of the poem.

Bernadette Gallagher, author of The Risen Tree (Revival Press, 2024) views poems as ways of conversing between the past, present and to some reader in the future.

The aim of this workshop is to facilitate conversation through the reading of poems.
The objectives are:
• to allow the participants to feel that even if they have never read a poem before that their understanding of a poem is as valid as that of any other person.
• to provide a stimulus for the participant to write their own story through an oral conversation, a short story, a poem, a song, letter writing, drama, painting, music...

The doors to Poetry in Conversation are open, push your way through.

The event is free but limited spaces. Reserve a spot.