Updated / Friday, 5 Mar 2021
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In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 7th March, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary is joined by poets Patrick Cotter and Jessamine O’Connor.
Jessamine O Connor is a Dublin-born writer living on the Sligo/Roscommon border in the west of Ireland. She was the winner of the inaugural Comórtas Filíochta Chultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich 2020 (with poems translated by Oilí Diarmuid); Poetry Ireland/Butlers Cafe competition 2017, and previously the iYeats and Francis Ledwidge awards in 2011. She has published a number of chapbooks and joins Olivia O’Leary to talk about her first full collection,
Silver Spoon, published by Salmon Poetry.
MET ÉIREANN warns of widespread snow on wintry weekend #SNEACHTA
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Met Éireann has issued a snow warning for most counties in Ireland as Atlantic and European weather systems clash over the island in a less severe repeat of the Beast from the East climactic scenario that hit in 2018.
The Status Yellow snow and ice warning covers Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Wicklow, Offaly, Westmeath, Meath, Galway, Mayo, Leitrim, Sligo Roscommon, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal.
Met Éireann warns that these counties will be hit by wintry falls with some accumulations possible.
The warning is valid from 6am to 6pm Sunday, January 31.
New collection of poems by Jessamine O Connor
Mediator in Residence at The Dock
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Jessamine O’Connor’s new collection of poems “Silver Spoon” has just been published by Salmon Poetry.
The book also features original paintings by artist Helen Chantrell, including the stunning cover. The work includes poems selected from the last ten years of writing, and crosses terrain of all sorts, from love and family to death and violence – and beyond.
As poet and editor Neil Young writes of this collection in his preface:
“She’s a writer of insatiable observation, whose watchfulness of norms of existence – in the living home, the street, the doorways, the fields, her native heath, up a chimney, in a dog’s glance – often lays bare its abnormality, or urges us on to revisualise the familiar… Innocence and menace interchange; fear and wonder collide. All this expressed, as is her knack, with unmistakable lyricism and empathy.”