BARDS IN THE WOODS
PUBLIC EVENT
BY SIOFRA O'DONOVAN
Meet in the car park at 12.30.
We're going to storm the trees with poetry- yours, or the poetry of a poet you love. Let's try to keep the theme on trees, woods, woodland, forestry. It doesn't have to be Irish. We are gathering to honour the trees and the woodland that is ...the very soil of our heritage. The trees hold thousands of stories, and have witnessed our own ancestors' history. Especially these old indigenous oaks at Tomnafingoue woods in Tinahely, Co. Wicklow. Why are we doing this? To remind our own government that we don't approve of the sale of Coillte as an asset to a foreign company. These trees belong to all of us, and are the repository of our own history. Nobody has made it clear what would happen to Coillte forests if they are sold. And this is imminent. So let's get out and pour poetry into the woods! Bring friends!
Friday, March 9, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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