The Unfinished Book of Poetry<\/em>. A bumper 280 pages replete with courageous, extraordinary, often highly imaginative compositions attests to the unique value this project holds for young writers in Cork city. It has also been published as an eBook, which is easily searchable online. <\/p>\n The 2024 edition features poems from 64 young writers engaged in transition year, representing five Cork city schools. Since the outset, over thirty schools have taken part in the project, the d\u00e9but edition having been published back in 2005, the year Cork was the European Capital of Culture.<\/p>\n
The finished poems are all well-polished, due not only to the zeal, vision and commitment of these young creatives, but also to the diligent tutorship of the five professional assisting writers. Each step of their creative guidance is critical for the course, informing the students on what is possible in poetry while their well-published, award-winning tutors get to coax out the talents of a budding demographic, one which they themselves would love to have been part of in decades gone by. Who knows, it may not be long before student alumni from The Unfinished Book of Poetry<\/em> series have become poetry tutors themselves.<\/p>\nHuge Congratulations to all of the young writers, from:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Christ King Girls\u2019 Secondary School<\/strong> with poet Afric McGlinchey in Tory Top Library and at the school;<\/p>\n \u2022 St. Angela’s College<\/strong> led by poet David McLoghlin at Cork City Library;<\/p>\n \u2022 St. Vincent’s Secondary School<\/strong> with poet Tina Pisco at the school;<\/p>\n \u2022 Gaelchol\u00e1iste Choilm<\/strong> ch\u00faram Colm \u00d3 Ceallach\u00e1in, i Leabharlann Bhaile an Chollaigh; agus<\/p>\n \u2022 Col\u00e1iste an Spioraid Naoimh<\/strong> led by poet John W. Sexton in Bishopstown Library and at the school.<\/p>\nWith special thanks<\/em> to all the Cork city library staff. <\/p>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n
Paul Casey<\/strong>
\nProject Curator, April 2024<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following poems have been selected from twelve poets published in The Unfinished Book of Poetry 2024, and are being displayed in Cork City Library’s Poetry in the Parks project during the summer, via installations in Marina Park, Fitzgerald’s Park, Tramore Valley Park, Ballincollig Regional Park, Gerry O\u2019Sullivan Park and the Blarney Sanctuary Walkway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20489"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20528,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20489\/revisions\/20528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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