Assignment 2: Poetry

Untitled Villanelle by Mary Kavanagh

I don’t know whether I would bring you back

If leaving was your wish, I must concur

Your journey ended on a railway track

Ballad Exercise

1.The Banishing of Cain by Jessica Hannigan When Cain killed Abel he was marked,No longer in God’s sight.

Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival 18th-21th October 2006

Attention all poets. Cuisle Poetry Festival is running this week. The festival’s programme of events is available on the link below

White House poetry group call for submissions

The White House Poets have for the past three years held their White House Poetry Revival readings in the White House pub in
Limerick City, Ireland.

Submissions for Assignment One

1.Hearing by Margaret O’BrienI stayed at home that night, sick and restless, the sound of my own death-rattle-cough, as it stuck in my throat, pulled me back from the edge as I tottered over the precipice into sleep

Poetic Terms

Analyzing Poetry

Assignment One

Choose one of the five senses (or a sixth sense of your own invention). Write a 1,000-word prose piece saturated with the imagery, sounds, scent, taste and feel of your chosen sensory organ.

Send your assignments to maeve.tynan@mic.ul.ie asap.

Workshop Number One

Thursday 6-8pm in Room 301