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Banbury,
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The
Oxford Apollo, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AG
Tel: 0870 606 3500
The Oxford Playhouse
Beaumont Street
Oxford
Ox1 2LW
Tel 01865 305305
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Magdalen Road
Oxford OX4 1RE
Tel 01865 792209
Burton
Taylor Theatre
Gloucester Street, Oxford
OX1 2BN
Tel: 01865 305 305
Old
Fire Station Theatre
40 George Street, Oxford
OX1 2AQ
Tel: 01865 297 170
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Upstairs at the Jericho Tavern, 56 Walton Street,
Jericho, Oxford OX2 6AE
Tel:01865 311 775
Modern
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Sonning Eye, near Reading
0118 969 8000
Friends
Meeting House, 42 St Giles, Oxford
Unicorn
Theatre, Checker Walk, Abingdon
Jongleurs
Comedy Club, 3-5 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW.
Railway
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A415 Culham
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
Tel: 01367 710 593
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By
Siobhan McAndrew
The
literati convened in Oxford's tiny Half Moon pub on Saturday May
17 for the launch of Bernard O'Donoghue's latest poetry collection.
Bernard
O'Donoghue is a Fellow in English at Wadham College and a noted
Irish poet.
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Tom Paulin gave a reading from John Clare. |
Outliving
is his fifth collection, following on from Here nor There (1999)
and Gunpowder (1995), which won the Whitbread Prize for poetry.
In
his poems, he deals with the themes of displacement and imagined
community.
Having
lived in England since the age of 16, his poetry refers to the Ireland
of the past and of the mind, and its increasing unfamiliarity.
His
poems are detailed and precise, like concentrated short stories,
with an elegiac quality.
Brendan
Mac Lua, founder of the London-based newspaper The Irish Post, gave
a speech.
He
commended the collection of poems for eschewing nostalgia and pointing
out that the Irish throughout western Europe can fly home cheaply,
sometimes arriving more quickly than if battling with the snarling
traffic within Ireland.
He
likened the collection to a small Irish fishing boat: 'and it is
a great honour to launch this currach'.
O'Donoghue
then read from the collection, citing Oxford Irishman Michael Henry
as a particular inspiration and dedicatee of many of the poems.
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Wells, an award-winning fiddler, provided the music.
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'The
Mule Duignan', the tale of a navvy remembering his bitter and poverty-stricken
childhood, was especially moving.
Saluting
friend and colleague Tom Paulin for his ability to write political
poems, O'Donoghue contributed one inspired by a photograph of a
dead teenage Taliban fighter.
Tom
Paulin followed, reading from John Clare, and a translation of a
Palestinian poem.
Music
was led by 14-year-old award-winning fiddler Jacob Wells who played
The May Morning Dew.
Michael
Henry, a noted traditional singer, contributed several ballads and
to the delight of the audience, O'Donoghue himself sang unaccompanied
Common Working Man.
Outliving is published by Chatto & Windus.
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