Sunday, November 16, 2008

Eamon Carr reads from Origami Crow this Wednesday

Part of my recent adventures includes attending the book launch for Eamon Carr's Origami Crow. Here's an upcoming reading:

White House Poetry Revival Wed 19th Nov 2008

Eamon Carr has been a significant figure in the Irish artistic and cultural scene for many years. In the late 1960s he co-founded Tara Telephone, the music and poetry group of the Dublin beat scene.Tara Telephone published everyone from Marc Bolan to Allan Ginsberg, Brian Patten, Seamus Heaney, Pearse Hutchinson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Brendan Kennelly, Adrian Mitchell, Pete Brown in their magazines and broadsheets. The group also ran recitals. Among those who read with Tara Telephone, in addition to Eamon and Peter Fallon were Phil Lynott and Roger McGough. With Jim Fitzpatrick, the group also produced specially designed posters with artwork and poems combined. One of these posters with Eamon's poem 'A Tale of Love' was exhibited in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005 which also toured in Germany and Austria.


For more on this poetry series, visit the Limerick.com site.

2 comments:

Ann ODyne said...

hopefully Eamonn will appear also at

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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú" said...

Thanks to Miss T and Éamon and all who helped in getting "Origami Crow" to me. My copy arrived today in a pre-Thanksgiving thunderstorm, portending much, I assume, about its elegantly rendered contents. Maybe birds warn us still with their cries? Talk about pathetic fallacies!