Space Inside journal goes quarterly

After six years, the Space Inside journal has moved from a monthly to a quarterly publication. The steady reduction in funding over the years has meant that, in order to keep the journal alive, we must cut our cloth. We plan to make it a bigger publication but with the same high quality of articles and information. You will still be able to read it online,
Our monthly Live Nights performers will continue to be published on our blog and on Facebook.

Space Inside Poetry Contest Winners

Martin Swords announced the winners of our 2010 poetry contest to a packed Space Inside Live Night, last night. Commenting on the high standard of the entries and imaginative use of the phrase 'space inside', Martin began by recounting various lines from poems which he felt were particularly worthly of mention.

Drum roll . . .

The winner of the Space Inside Poetry Contest 2010 is
Jane Clarke from Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow with her poem Anniversary

Anniversary

He's alive in our house;
his books talk to ours on the shelves.

His photograph above the piano,
violin tucked under his chin.

You play the pieces he arranged,
quote his sayings and stories,

read his fountain-penned notebook
of favourite poems, Yeats, Frost

and Verlaine, for what they tell
about the space inside him.

I see you running to keep up
as he wallks Three Rock Mountain,

insisting you listen to what he has learned
about Satre and Tielhard de Chardin.

Today I dig compost into the tired clay,
plant heathers and snowdrops on his grave.

You watch and muse how it might have been
had he lived past your teens.


Our second winner is Edward Ryan of Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow with The Space Inside

The Space Inside

For each of us a 'space inside'
Where our loving feelings bide
Some mystery too, the strangest thing
It grows the more with emptying.

Congratulations to our worthy winners who were presented with their prize hampers on the night by Carol Boland - chairperson of Space Inside, who went on to thank everyone who entered into the spirit of the Space Inside's first poetry contest.

Sound engineer wanted

AJ, our sound man, has moved. A big thank-you to him for his great work on the sound desk over the years. We wish him and Sinead well in their new venture, Pretty Paws.

Are you interested in getting involved with our Live Night team one night a month? Even if you are only learning about how a sound desk works, contact us. We'd love to hear from you.
Tel: 0851138367 or email us at spaceinside@hotmail.com

Space Inside Journal October '10

Space Inside Mag Oct '10

October '10 Live Night

Tuesday 5th October

Jay Ramsay

Jay Ramsay is the author of over 30 books of poetry, translation and non-fiction. He pioneered the connection between poetry and personal development and has taken his work abroad to America and Europe. His most recent book The Poet in You (O Books) was published in 2009.
Jay comes to us from the UK where his work has been praised by Ted Hughes, Kathleen Raine and Robert Bly. We look forward to hearing his performance. Details of his poetry workshop, Edges, on 2/3 October in Bray, are shown on page 6 of the Space Inside Journal
http://www.jayramsay.co.uk/

IN BOWOOD LIBRARY
Bowood House, near Calne, Wilts.

The flattened skin as if ironed without a crease
to the edge of the claws and the tail, lifeless in 2D
at the centre, in front of the fireplace: jaws, sabre teeth
wedged open under taxidermist’s eyes
for fierceness—to rationalize
the murder that was yours, for sport
for proof of our pathetic domination.

Your leonine hide stretched like savannah,
the earth from the air, where gazelle and zebra
and wildebeest cross and pink flamingos
cloud above wherever there is water
but there’s none here, only dry musty leatherbound
books on the rising shelves; with their soporific smell
in the afterlunch haze...and above them
painted into the ceiling’s moulding, in relief,
the faces of the Greek philosophers in profile
impassive as vases.

So we ruled
and now we pay the price

and as we stand to leave, to breathe the sunlight,
the alarm goes off...as the suspects exit,
breaking the trance of centuries.

Jay Ramsay


Conor O’Donnell

In 2000, Conor O' Donnell teamed up with Tom Galvin to form an Irish and American folk band, playing in pubs around County Wicklow. As The Big Muddy, they toured the US and could often be found gigging in Portland Oregon. Conor’s mission was to bring great American style music to Ireland and, last June, the Americana and Roots weekend was launched in Greystones, to great acclaim. Tonight, Conor plays solo giving us a taste of his folk roots with lively version of songs by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

School of Rock

Celebrating 10 years, WSMD presents Summer School of Rock 2010, featuring some of the bands from this year’s camp ready to rock you with old and contemporary tunes. This is another chance to see the bands following their performance on Culture Night.

Space Inside Poetry Contest Winners

Martin Swords, contest adjudicator, will announce the winners of the Space Inside Poetry Contest. The winning poems will be read on the night and prizes awarded to the lucky winners.

Space Inside AGM

The Space Inside AGM is on Thursday 2 September in the lobby of the Grand Hotel, Wicklow at 6.30pm.

All are welcome to attend.

A report of the meeting together with Chairperson's report will be posted on this site.

Poetry Contest - Deadline Extended

To give all you aspiring poets out there time to enter
our poetry competition we have extended the deadline to
thursday 30th September.

We are delighted to have the poet Martin Swords, of
Wicklow Writers' fame, to adjudicate the competition
- to keep it all above board!

Thanks to all those who have already entered but we need more poems . . .
Help us to make our target of 50 poems and send us your entry today!