Book launch, Fermenting
Launch of my tenth poetry book Fermenting
by singer/songwriter John Dengate,
2pm, Newtown Library, 8-10 Brown St., Newtown 2042, Saturday 10th November, '07
Newtown Festival, poetry reading
1:08pm Fri. November 9th
I'm doing a poetry reading in the Writers' Tent, run by Better Read than Dead, at Newtown Festival, Sunday 11th November, '07
No Spring in Dublin This Year
The tree-coiling
day
scrawls
vague murmurs
of spring flowers
on the granite-
grained
Dublin sky.
But,
spring flowers
are too slight,
easily mislaid,
under
trees coiled
like barbed wire,
over
St. Stephens Green.
 "Photo by Russ Hermann")
About Colleen
Colleen Z Burke, award winning poet and author, has had numerous books published including ten poetry books. She has also published a biography of Australian poet Marie E.J. Pitt, Doherty's Corner and is co-editor of The Turning Wave - Poems and Songs of Irish Australia. More