A number of towns throughout County Cork such as Macroom, pictured, is to benefit from the Streetscape Enhancement Scheme, operated by Cork County Council and supported by the Department of Rural and Community Development. The commissioned poems will be recorded and preserved in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive and made freely available to everyone. Poetry readings, online exhibitions, a symposium, a ‘poetry in public spaces’ initiative, and a dedicated website hosting a virtual poetry wall are among a range of anticipated opportunities for engagement with poetry as a form of commemoration, created by this initiative. The ‘Poetry as Commemoration’ initiative is funded under the Creative Imagination Strand, one of four strands in the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023. As noted by the Heritage Council (www.heritagecouncil.ie), ‘Once again, National Heritage Week has shown that while we may still be physically apart, sharing our heritage brings our communities closer together.

Source: Irish Independent September 01, 2021 23:03 UTC