Where the Hazel Falls
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Now Available to buy online, only €9.95! Nine Irish poets for your delectation, in a unique anthology.
Widely different styles and themes united by a common love of the land and our heritage,
from the mystical to the mundane, from pathos to humour, sometimes in the one poem!
Electric Publications describe their
new anthology as the works of nine poets, each with their own
distinctive style and agendas; but with all of these poets is a
common thread - a love of this land and a way of looking at the
world that reaches beyond the mundane. The collection is one of
great variety, linking poets of different style and interests but
with a common theme running through the works, of connection to
the land. Ancient myth, modern concerns - all make their
appearance as nine poets articulate their views.
The title is taken from the Whitely Stokes translation of the
Connla legend, telling how the Hazel falling into the Well of
Connla gives rise to the seven streams of wisdom and inspiration.
At the Halfpenny Bridge Inn in Dublin four of the poets read
their works, including Toddy Kennedy whose collection
"Introduction" already enjoyed success (also published
by Electric Publications) Ann Dalton, Adam Dunlea and Geraldine
Moorkens Byrne. Music was provided by the singer/songwriter Jimi
Cullen.
