Event Details
Dates
13/11/2008 – 13/11/2008
Stepping Away.
Matt Mooney
Using pints for punctuation,
Farming friends around him
Holding earthy conversations :
Man to man discussions
On someone’s lock of cattle
Or a lovely score of lambs.
Turning his back to the bar,
Measuring his every move
He employs a walking stick
To aid his disappearance;
Exiting black double doors,
Writing off another night.
Using pints for punctuation,
Farming friends around him
Holding earthy conversations :
Man to man discussions
On someone’s lock of cattle
Or a lovely score of lambs.
In good humour going home,
Unconscious of the loneliness
Of the silent sleeping village,
He sits into my waiting car
And we leave the streetlamps
To the phantoms of the night.
Matt Mooney. Born in Kilchreest, Loughrea, Co. Galway in 1943. He took up teaching in Listowel in 1966. His first book of poetry Droving was launched in 2003. He has read at The Baffle Festival, and The West Cork Literary Festival and performed at various poetry Slams. His poem ‘The Instrument’ was read on Radio One by Ciarán Mac Mathúna and his poems in Irish ‘m’Athair Máirtín’, Cois Laoi and ‘Gaillimh’ appeared in ‘Feasta.’.
