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BALLY VAUGHAN poet on artist, Frank Golden launched his latest book of poetry at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan on Saturday evening.
The book, entitled In Daily Accord, is a Selection of short poems written on a daily basis over a twenty month period.
Golden came to the idea after un- dertaking a series of daily drawings, where he undertook a series a daily sketches over a prolonged period of time.
He began to write the series of short poems on his birthday, May 16 2003,
and continued to add a poem each day for more than two years.
“Sometime the poems are quite de- scriptive, and other times they can be much more personal. But as with anything done over such a length of time, certain voices, personalities, locales and dramas crop up and play WaLesbeKToy Atos @)ULIMOMN SLomST-NT OD
‘Because you are writing every day, things that happen during your day can often appear. So, if I had gone for a walk on Black Head one day, likely as not that will crop figure in a poem in one way of another. Over the course of the years I wrote some 1000 poems, so the book is just a se- lection of this work.”
The poems are loosely based on Haiku and Senryu forms with the book following a roughly seasonal order, with poems from each month being grouped together.
Frank was joined at the launch by fellow readers Valerie Whelan and John Doorty while a musical back- drop was provided by composer An- drew Collins.
‘There are introspective and they are questioning, they are more like distillations than a real narrative. I guess, there 1s a since of a life, lived on a daily basis,’ he continued.
“The thing about these poems is that they are very small in nature, so it was difficult to know how we could
present them in a public setting. I de- cided to have Valerie and Frank who would read a slightly altered version of the poem and create an inverted echo for each poem.
Frank has been living in the Bur- ren for some twenty years, and has been resident in Ballyvaughan for the bulk of that time. It has been a productive period for him, seeing the publication of four books of poems, a novel and a number of exhibitions of his paintings.