Poetry Day Ireland
The sixty-minute-long film will be followed by a short reading and discussion with Edwina Guckian & Vincent Woods (Poet Laureate for Carrick on Shannon) followed by a reception to launch this year’s 25th Strokestown International Poetry Festival.
Poetry Day Ireland
Poetry, the legacy of famine and the landscapes around Strokestown are at the heart of Hunger’s Way/Bealch an Fhéir Ghortaigh, a new film by Edwina Guckian and Vincent Woods specially commissioned for the Strokestown International Poetry Festival 2021.
The film features new poems by Eiléan NÍ Chuilleanáin, Paddy Bushe, Moya Cannon, James Harpur, Jane Clarke, Eva Bourke, Pádraig MacFhearghusa and memorable work by Vona Groarke, Tom French, Kathleen Hill and Joseph Woods. Galway artist Miriam de Búrca made new artwork for the film and it features music and song by Danny Diamond, Patsy Hanly, Mai Malone, Fionnuala Maxwell, John Tuohy and Mohammad Saif-Khan. The film was made in and around Strokestown Park House, the National Famine Museum and surrounding landscapes.
The sixty-minute-long film will be followed by a short reading and discussion with Edwina Guckian & Vincent Woods (Poet Laureate for Carrick on Shannon) followed by a reception to launch this year’s 25th Strokestown International Poetry Festival.
