July 2, 2020 at 9:28 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, art, artists residency, Dublin, happiness, Ireland, memories, museums, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
- All around the world people are noticing that their cities and towns are quieter during the pandemic. They say that they can hear the birds in the morning instead of traffic and are more aware of nature’s presence. In quiet moments during the day, I can hear neighbors chatting as they walk past. Children’s voices mingle with the sounds of water sprinklers. It feels like we stepped back to a less hectic time when people stayed at home more.
— A Quiet Moment, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 102, P. A. Moed
Last fall, self was in Ireland. What a different place the world was then!
During her visits to Ireland, she always finds calm and inspiration. These pictures reflect that mood.
from a cottage at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
Just Outside IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin
This beautiful avenue leads from IMMA straight to . . . the Dublin Castle? It is a wonderful walk.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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March 14, 2020 at 5:57 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, Irish writers, poetry, Saturday, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Met Jackie at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig. Self ordered her collection The Wounded Stork, as soon as she got home.
Oh, wondrous.
Shorn
Pale blue eyes looking up,
I put nitroglycerine under your tongue,
as we watch the football and
hum Nessum Dorma.
I help you to shave or tie a Windsor Knot,
each time noticing the beige circle
on your cheek,
melanoma erased by radiotherapy.
In July, you planted a rosemary bush.
Covered in ancient toil and sweat,
I help you undress in the hallway.
Closing the bathroom door, seeing you bare,
all of you was vulnerable and shorn,
shivering like a frightened lamb.
My skin burnt silently and slowly.
You looked at me and
I write you a poem with naked eyes.
Jackie Gorman has been published in a number of journals including Poetry Ireland Review, The Lonely Crowd, The Honest Ulsterman and in anthologies such as The Windows Anthology. She was part of the 2017 Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, a national programme to profile and support emerging poets in Ireland.
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February 21, 2020 at 1:43 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Paris, poetry, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Self met Csilla at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, which has introduced her to so many wonderful voices.
From the collection Red Roots — Orange Sky (Belfast: Lapwing Publications, 2013)
A FRAGMENT
In Parc de Luxembourg,
hiding under fallen leaves —
A fountain — messenger
from a sea of amber — Verdigris.
Its well-stone, formerly
Neptune’s set of teeth, now
water-pouring standstill
tossing threat for dragons.
In its far angle a more
Humanoid structure,
a spun-into-form world-element.
It longs, broods and hovers —
above all that is left.
Csilla Toldy was born in Hungary. She escaped from the socialist bloc through the green borders at the age of eighteen in 1981. She now lives in northern Ireland.
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January 2, 2020 at 5:58 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Lists, Niece, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, Bacolod, Christmas, Cork, Cornwall, Events, Filipino food, Fowey, Ireland, London, memories, Menlo Park, Oxford, Prague, Redwood City, restaurants, The Philippines, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Great theme!
In 2019, self traveled the world. Her life triangulated between home in Redwood City, California, to England and Ireland, to the Philippines. Side trip to Prague with her niece, Irene!
Here goes, all the images that mattered most to self in 2019, arranged from most recent — December 2019 — to the earliest, January 2019: Starting with her home in Redwood City in early December; to London’s Blackfriar station; to Manggapuri Villa in Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, Philippines; to Prague; to Oxford University’s Exam School for Alice Oswald’s first reading as Oxford’s first woman Poet in Residence; to Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park; to the Main House of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig; to the fire pit in Manggapuri Villas; to the Daku Balay in Bacolod City, the Philippines; to self’s bedroom; to the Blue Room in Café Paradiso in Cork, Ireland; to Fowey in Cornwall; to Courthouse Square, Redwood City; to the cover of last winter’s issue of Prairie Schooner, which included her story Things She Can Take
Prague, May 2019
Waiting for the Alice Oswald lecture to begin, 13 November 2019
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Republic of Ireland, last week of October
Manggapuri Villas: September 2019
Daku Balay, 50 Burgos Street, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, The Philippines
Self’s headboard in Redwood City, CA: Made in the Philippines
Paradiso, Cork, May 2019: She bought the Converse sneakers in London a few weeks earlier. Now they are scuffed and smudged, everywhere.
Stay tuned.
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November 28, 2019 at 5:24 pm (Books, destinations, Food and Drink, Holidays, Memoirs, Niece, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Publishers, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, art, England, Events, Fowey, Fowey Festival, Ireland, Liverpool, London, memories, Oxford, Prague, Thanksgiving, The Philippines, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Prague, May 2019
Two Handmaidens, London’s Canary Wharf: November 2019
Waiting for the Alice Oswald lecture to begin, 13 November 2019
Currently Reading
Christ Church, Oxford: Remembrance Day
Prague Castle, Last Week of May 2019
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November 2, 2019 at 8:15 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, England, Ireland, Liverpool, museums, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Viveka on my guilty pleasures has the most beguiling photographs on this week’s Photo-a-Week Challenge: ATMOSPHERIC. So inspiring!
Thank you, Nancy Merrill, for the prompt: Share a photo (or two or three) with a distinct atmosphere.
Here are a few of self’s atmospheric shots.
Liverpool Docks, yesterday:
Park in front of IMMA (Ireland Museum of Modern Art, Dublin):
Dublin, park in front of IMMA, last Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The TGC at Annaghmakerrig, where self spent October:
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Republic of Ireland, last week of October
What is it about the Fall? It’s becoming self’s favorite season to travel.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 24, 2019 at 12:16 pm (Links, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cee Neuner, Ireland, seasons, transitions, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Seriously love this prompt, from Cee Neuner: TEXTURES.
Reminds self of the thing she enjoys most about FALL.
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October 22, 2019 at 5:28 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, novel, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, writing process
From 4:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., this group was kept constantly occupied with reading and rigorous forms of self-affliction: lying face-down on the stone floor of the chapel, or bathing from a pump in the chilly pre-dawn. This was calculated to prepare them for the rigors of an overseas mission. They dedicated themselves to the study of languages, such as Dutch, English, French, and German. They received medical instruction, for they would be required to run hospitals. Last, they received guidance in the writing of their own sermons, and in the performance of miracles.
(If indeed this turns out to be an ACTUAL HISTORICAL NOVEL, then self will have to cut out all the parts about miracles)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 20, 2019 at 12:06 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places, Relatives, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, birthday, Garden, happiness, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Layered landscape.
“You can include images of buildings, landscapes, seascapes, clouds . . . ”
The prompt was so interesting!
Here are self’s takes on LAYERED.
- Worktable in her writing studio at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre: layered in books and papers
- Layered plantings at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre:
- Layers of purple, her daughter-in-law’s favorite color. Bought her this bouquet on her birthday in September.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 19, 2019 at 2:16 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, Saturday, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, weekends
- If St. Callixtus was thrown into a pit, as his acts relate, it seems probable that he was put to death in some popular tumult.
(Self is just through reading this super-exciting section in which she tries to piece together exactly what earned St. Callixtus the designation ‘Martyr,’ when she hears KNOCK KNOCK!!! It’s someone from the Main House: The Goblin Emperor, which she ordered from Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway, has arrived! YAY!)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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