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As we bid farewell to 2012, we look forward with renewed vigor to the coming year of 2013.<\/p>\n
We survived yet again an end of the world, and look forward to the announcement of the next one.<\/p>\n
On a personal level, Im preparing to move back to my families native Longford, and family research has led to the discovery of a book on Longford history that has great anecdotes which I intend to put in verse in the coming months!<\/p>\n
I’ll be donning my walking shoes again, with a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella on the agenda for the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On the arts scene, a collection of my work is slated for March, a chapbook from the Tullamore Rhymers Club to be done for the end of January, and to wrap up Issue X of Cartys Poetry Journal, and integrate the new submission mechanism in the website.<\/p>\n
Looking back on 2012, the highlight had to be the launch of Seamus Kirwans excellent book “Ravings of a Mad Irishman”, which is a great read with a powerful message.<\/p>\n
Outings to the Fermoy Poetry Festival, having Kevin Higgins down for the 100,000 Poets for Changeevent, catching the tail end of the C\u00c3\u00bairt festival in Galway and attending a couple of events in the Irish Writers Centre kept me busy.<\/p>\n
The coming year will see me writing as much about slurry tanks as rhyming poetry, and bring it on is what I say!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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