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Tonight’s launch by The White House Poets

I’m looking forward to tonight’s launch of Revival no. 7 at the White House Poetry event in the White House Pub on O’Connell St., Limerick at 9pm (get there early as it will be crowded the way these launches always are), not least because I have a poem in Revival 7 entitled Lament and will get to read it for the first time in public.

The evening apparently kicks off with a reading by guest poet, Kevin Higgins. This will be followed by the official launch of Revival 7. Finally, the open mic session will take place, the MC for the night being John Johnston. I’m hoping to give my latest completed poem, Tricolour (published here in a previous post), its first ever public airing also.

Some famous poet, whose name escapes me, once wrote that a poem is not complete until such time as it becomes public. I very much identify with this, as the act of reading to an audience is the equivalent of severing the umbilical chord, when the poem comes into its own as an independent entity. The audience serves as midwife to the completion of the poem’s birthing process as it were. Only then can I judge whether a poem has real merit: I may feel in my bones that it has but I can never be sure until I experience my own delivery of the poem to the audience and feel their reaction to it.

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Tonight’s launch by The White House Poets

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