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 Vol I


Jennifer Matthews

Downriver


Sinéad Ryan

Stroke


Anne-Marie Grandfield

Weeping Willow


Alan Coakley reading Annie Power’s poem

Called Summer


Finbarr O’Mahony

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Patricia Walsh

Below Water


Patricia Walsh

Being an Artist


Séamus Harrington

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Daw Harding

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Annie Power reading Alan Coakley’s poem

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Edward O’Dwyer

Epitaph to a Night


Videos from the open-mic


Tommy Livingston

Memory


Earth Spirits’ Poem


Joe Sweeney

(extract from) A New Slant


Edward O’Dwyer

Couple Downstairs


Teri Murray

The Street of Booksellers


Seline McCarney

A Tour of Ireland


Patricia Walsh

The Truth Hurts Less


Billy Ramsell

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Paddy Doyle

For My Grandmother


Séamus Harrington

Free Downloads


Sinéad Ryan

The Stool


Santa Claus has a Pet Sheep


Ronan Deevey

When you walked away from me


Daw Harding

The Music of the Stars


Alan Coakley

The Rose (Anne-Marie Grandfield’s poem)


A Modest Position


Tom Jordan

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Alan Titley

An t-iontas (The Wonder)


Aaron Lewis quotes Marianne Williamson

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