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Country Choice Poetry Reading with Seamus Hogan

February 201505th

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Country Choice Poetry Reading with Seamus Hogan

by Ger McNulty

Local poet, Seamus Hogan returns to Nenagh to read at Country Choice on Thursday 5th February at 8 pm. Seamus, a native of Clash, Toomevara, has two published collections, Interweavings Dublin - Paris 1978 - 1988, and New Poems 1993. Seamus lived in France for many years and now lives in West Cork.

Seamus's work is deeply rooted in his rural upbringing with wonderfully evocative imagery drawn from his childhood "It must have been this month of the year, November, because I wore boots of rubber and the cows wore boots of mud."

His work is atmospheric and evokes a sense of intimacy and warmth. He draws us into a room in Paris "In Rue du Cygne from an open window a purple curtain like a chiffon dress breathes erratically into the summer breeze."

Seamus is currently working on translating a selection of R.M. Rilke's poems into English. The late Seamus Heaney, who was a long term friend of Seamus Hogan, was collaborating and advising on these translations at the time of his death.

As we head into Spring come along and enjoy a glass of wine at Country Choice, where I'm sure Mary and Peter Ward will create their own renowned welcoming atmosphere and give us the perfect setting in which to hear Seamus's beautiful poem, aptly titled, Cherry Blossom

"Having dug less deep
crocus, snowdrop and daffodil
are first to mine the hard clay
for colour. But you, in your quiet way,
Spring after Spring continue to surprise.
Among others sap has hardly begun to rise
and you're already in jewels of flame;
the soil's own poet in all but name."

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