March 22, 2018 at 3:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, happiness, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is FAVORITE PLACE.
Cheri Lucas Rowlands: “This week, share an image of your happy place, a secret spot you love, or a faraway location you return to again and again.”
Regular readers of this blog already know what that place is!
No more beautiful place: Ireland in Spring
The Lawn in front of the Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 4, 2018 at 5:28 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Manila, poetry, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Instars
You will wear several skins
and outgrow all of them.
You’ll sense the pull of
tightness before
the fabric splits.
So leave them behind you
like plastic wrappers,
or human dresses
discarded in the rain.
Feel the relief
of each release,
the freedom
to expand again.
Self met the Australian poet Bronwyn Lovell during a 2015 stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig.
A few weeks ago, Irish visual artist Jacinta O’Reilly gifted self with a copy of Bronwyn’s chapbook, Chrysalis.
The poem above is from the chapbook.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 29, 2017 at 8:33 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Fridays, inspiration, Ireland, memories, Paris, poetry, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Met Australian poet Bronwyn Lovell at Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig in 2015. A mutual friend, Jacinta Oreilly, gave self her chapbook, Chrysalis, last week, and self has been reading it in Paris.
Thank you, Jacinta! What a lovely present.
Advice for the Cold-Blooded
When wings are the largest
part of your body
you rely too heavily
on the weather.
Listen, then.
You need to know that
the sun will not
always provide.
You must steal heat
from those warm places,
let it take you
to the next blossom
then wait for sunshine
to lift you again.
On days when every
surface is shaded
(however paralysed)
you must force
yourself to move.
Produce your own heat
in tiny increments. Shiver
until you are no longer cold.
NOTE: Chrysalis was shortlisted for the Doire Press International Poetry Chapbook Competition.
December 21, 2017 at 7:38 am (Artists and Writers, Links, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, happiness, Ireland, London, memories, postaday, postaweek, Shakespeare, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
The theme for this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is 2017 Favorites.
Here goes!
The Prince Albert Memorial on a Beautiful Day in Hyde Park, London, Late October 2017
Leaving the Globe after a performance of “Tristan and Yseult,” Tuesday 13 June 2017
The Main House in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Under a Crescent Moon
What. A. Year.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 18, 2017 at 10:10 am (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, dystopia, fantasy, Literary Magazines, Mondays, New Orleans Review, short story, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
The first of self’s dystopian fantasies to be published appeared in New Orleans Review in 2012:
THING
It’s been a week. The creature is still alive. I have been thinking a lot about it, watching it every day, seeing how it changes.
For instance, it no longer reacts when I poke it with the tip of my knife. Little dots of blood appear on the surface of its skin. Perhaps it has no nerve endings?
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 15, 2017 at 1:41 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Fridays, happiness, Ireland, postaday, postaweek, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
It’s almost time for self to pack up her books and end another incredibly intense, productive stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig.
Her last hurrah: in honor of this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, ASCEND, here are shots of the stairs going to her writing studio.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 8, 2017 at 5:25 pm (Conversations, Filipino Writers, Philippine History, Places, Surprises, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Events, historical novel, Ireland, Manila, politics, Saturday, The Philippines, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, work-in-progress
p. 243 of self’s novel-in-progress:
An English officer stands on the beach, waiting at attention. Matias gapes.
“England has attacked Spain, sir,” the man announces. “We have 5,000 soldiers in Manila. Colonel Chisholm.”
December 5, 2017 at 10:08 pm (Conversations, destinations, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Philippine History, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, historical novel, Ireland, novel, The Philippines, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, work-in-progress
The following is an excerpt from an Archbishop ‘s conversation with self’s main character Matias, who is being assigned to one of Spain’s farthest colonies, the Philippines:
“There are a handful of civil servants married to native women who have taken to land management. I would not go so far as to call their efforts industrious. They are respectable but not artistic. It would be tedious to describe them.”
Whenever self re-reads this passage, she just has to go
lol
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 4, 2017 at 8:16 pm (Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, fantasy, Ireland, Mondays, Spain, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, work-in-progress
An image of the Blessed Virgin accompanied him into every battle, resting on the pommel of his saddle. The Saint was a trickster, a conjurer. At his first victory, at the walled fortress of Quesada, his men scaled the walls in the darkness, first muffling their ladders with cloth.
December 4, 2017 at 12:42 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, dystopia, experimental, fantasy, flash fiction, Ireland, Mondays, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
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