EVENT: Poetry Day Ireland

27 April 2023: Poetry Day Ireland Event in Tallaght Library from 6.30pm

Platform One Writers Event for Poetry Day Ireland 2023, organised by Eileen Casey:
Unacknowledged Legislators of the World

‘MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE’

The Unacknowledged Legislators of the World aims to focus on the tradition of poets such as William Blake/Shelley, (including more modern poets).

These poets sent out distress cries, highlighting physical, political and spiritual abuse of power. Poets who used their poems as a container for distress cries (S.O.S.) which in turn became significant ‘messages in a bottle’  washing up on shores they had the vision to imagine.

Platform One writers (Eileen Casey, Doreen Duffy, Brian Kirk, Michael Whelan, Susan Condon, Vivienne Kearns, Orla Grant-Donoghue, Brigid Flynn, Joan Power) will read  their own original poems inspired by these much respected S.O.S. poets.

The event will take place on the main floor of Tallaght Library where the audience will have an opportunity to voice their views on the power of poetry to influence policy makers in a world beset by social and environmental issues.

Poems will be displayed throughout the library for the duration of Poetry Day, 2023.