Ó Bhéal – One Year In

Ó Bhéal’s First Anniversary
and the launch of Five Words

14 April 2008

The guest poets this Anniversary week were poets published in Ó Bhéal’s first publication, ‘Five Words’. Contributors to the collection read to a full house, and after the usual open-mic session the celebrations continued … a few comments from the evening can be heard here.

Videos of the Launch of Five Words

Five Word McNamara Slam – 14th April

Sinéad Ryan, Gerry McNamara, Tommy Livingston, Alice, George Harding, Alan Coakley, Cliff Wedgbury, Lucy, Annie Power.

Readings from Five Words

PC

Slammed

Jennifer Matthews

Downriver

Gene Barry

New Orleans

Sinéad Ryan

Stroke

Anne-Marie Grandfield

Weeping Willow

Alan Coakley reading Annie Power’s poem

At Your Mercy

Alan Coakley reading Annie Power’s poem

So-Called Summer

Finbarr O’Mahony

Untitled

Patricia Walsh

She is Below Water

Patricia Walsh

On Not Being an Artist

Séamus Harrington

Untitled

Daw Harding

Untitled 01

Daw Harding

Untitled 02

Annie Power reading Alan Coakley’s poem

Untitled

Edward O’Dwyer

Epitaph to a Night

Videos from the open-mic

Tommy Livingston

Memory

Tommy Livingston

Earth Spirits’ Poem

Joe Sweeney

(extract from) A New Slant

Edward O’Dwyer

The Couple Downstairs

Teri Murray

The Street of Booksellers

Seline McCarney

A Tour of Ireland

Patricia Walsh

The Truth Hurts Less

Billy Ramsell

Untitled

Paddy Doyle

For My Grandmother

Trish Casey

A Toast to our New-Found Sophistication

Séamus Harrington

Free Downloads

Gene Barry

Staying Alive

Gene Barry

Myopic Moments

Sinéad Ryan

The Stool

Sinéad Ryan

Santa Claus has a Pet Sheep

Ronan Deevey

When you walked away from me

Daw Harding

The Music of the Stars

Alan Coakley reads Anne-Marie Grandfield’s poem

The Rose

Alan Coakley

A Modest Position

Tom Jordan

Untitled

Alan Titley

An t-iontas (The Wonder)

Aaron Lewis quotes Marianne Williamson

‘Our Deepest Fear is that We Are Powerful Beyond Measure’


Permalink