Bloomsday in Melbourne’s A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of the Easter Rising will be a poetry reading with musical accompaniment. It features poems by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as poems about them by their friends, with dramatic biographical accounts interwoven through the readings. Directed and MC’d by Liam Gillespie, with cast including: Renee Huish, … Continue reading
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Poetry by Michael Whelan
These poems tell a powerful story. Continue reading
Poetry Book Launch
Both the challenges and radiant moments of the relationship of mother and daughter are given enduring form Continue reading
‘Peacekeeper’ by Michael Whelan
The poems were inspired by my tours of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper with the Irish Defence Forces in South Lebanon and Kosovo. Continue reading
Commemorative Events of the 1916 Easter Rising at the Celtic Club
The Melbourne Celtic Club’s Cultural Heritage Committee is holding a series of commemorative events Continue reading
Poetry
your arms around me as in my life’s first hours; Continue reading
POETRY – Outlaws by Tom Phillips
Homesickness was a wound but our dear children
in time helped us better relate to it all here, Continue reading
Approximately in the Key of C by Tony Curtis
launch of two new titles from Arc Publications Continue reading
A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
WINDHARP. Poems of Ireland since 1916
if this was all we had a thousand years from now, it would be the basis for a sound reconstruction of the political, social and economic life in Ireland in the century since 1916. Continue reading
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