Live Encounters Poetry June 2016

“In his editorial for the March 2016 issue, Terry McDonagh quoted Michael Longley’s If I knew where poetry came from, I’d go there. When I was recently invited to give a talk in Bremen on the question: “Where do poems come from?” I asked my audience to consider the follow-up questions: “Where do poems go to?” and “Why do they often not get there?” While the answers I proposed to the first and third questions can be filed under That’s Another Story, it is the second that is relevant here. The ‘small’ poetry magazines are our first port of call as both poets and readers; they should be cherished like plantlings.”           Ian Watson, Irish Poet, Editor, Essayist and Teacher.

Live Encounters Poetry June 2016

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Anton Floyd – Topographia
Brian Kirk – Cursed
David Morgan – The Meaning of Freedom
Heather Brett – Windows Publications Student Poetry Awards
Ian Watson – Guest Editorial and Poems
John W Sexton – Harbingers
Michael Durack – Our Lady Of The Wayside
Michael J Whelan – Peacekeeper
Mike Gallagher – New Horizons
Noel Monahan – Litany
Randhir Khare – Written in Sand
Terry McDonagh – Lady Cassie Peregrina

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