Aine MacAodha

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Aine MacAodha
Omagh, North Ireland, Ireland
Writer/poet,avid photographer with a great interest in Celtic Myths, the beauty in the Irish landscape and a proud mother of three grown up children. I live in Omagh North of Ireland where the Sperrin Mountains are my inspiration in any season. I have a first collection of poems published titled 'Where the Three Rivers Meet' You can find my links at, http://ainemacaodha.webs.com/
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Monday, 8 February 2010

New poem publishes in http://soylesipoetrymagazine.com/

Nesrin Eruysal Söyleşi Üç Aylık Şiir Dergisi


http://soylesipoetrymagazine.com/
Kenneth Rosen, Alfred Corn, Reshma Aquil, John Muckle, Immanuel Mifsud, Cem Uzungüneş, Carlos Barbarito, Koray Feyiz, Ken Fifer, Mark Cobley, Thor Stefansson, Tree Riesener, Barbara Crooker, Hedy Habra,Aine MacAodha


Edited by Nesrin Eruys

SÖYLEŞİ ÜÇ AYLIK ŞİİR DERGİSİ

WINTER 2010 VOLUME 2

MELANCHOLY AND MEMORY

You can download the issue or read online, Aine.

Monday, 1 February 2010

New Poem 'Imbolc'

Had fun with the movie maker with this one, a poem for Imbolc, Bede, Bridgits day........ The snow is on the ground around Tyrone and the hills dusted with it, cold, but lovely to look out at; the wild birds are enjoying the feast in the garden although those crows chase the Robins, the robins are territorial and put up a brave fight. Have to get a photo of them but as soon as the door opens, the dogs out and they're off!


video



                                                                                                 Tara, watching the birds!

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Island Home



Island Home



I’ve traveled very little from this island home.

My native land grounds me keeps me in contact

with the rhythms of nature, the sound of the winds,

the call of the wild birds and the dialects of its people.


Tyrone’s inland landscape of moss clad hills and flat bogs

break every now and then like an ocean wave.

Small towns and villages emerge lively and loud

against the woven landscape.


One can drive for miles across back roads criss-crossing

town lands whose names mean; stony path,

fairly coloured field or hill of midges; before

a village appears out of the hedgerows.


Fintona, Seskinore, over the mountain to

Fivemiletown. across the side road to Sixmilecross,

Carrickmore, Gortin and to Omagh again, the view

always lifts the spirit.


Gortin village is one such place, hidden within

the protective fauna of the forest and rough mossy

hills flanking the road into the village.

Fiddle music sails up from the music store.


I may not have traveled far; but this island

Home; were the ancestors have left their marks on the land;

in the form of art and awkward names,

This will take me far away in my mind at times.




Living on the Island of Ireland and the North especially has shaped my poetics as much as

its writers have. Songs, debates; dialects, myths and words all play the part; not

withstanding the landscape from inland to the coastal waters. One’s affected by the

weather, the wind loves to blast so much harder, winter seems to linger more, the seasons

don’t argue they just do their job. I don’t need the weather forecast, I just look out the

window; if there’s snow on the Sperrin Mountains,  there’s sure to be snow in the valley of


Omagh town at some stage during the week ahead.
 
 
First published in http://soylesipoetrymagazine.com/download-issues/

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Around the Sperrin Mountains







video
I made this short video using my photographs and a small poem. All taken in and around the Sperrin Mountain region of County Tyrone.

Monday, 28 December 2009

A few winter scenes of Omagh and one of the lakes in Gortin. Tyrone is frozen over and will be that way for the next few days; spring is on the way!

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Shirley Hall's new collection of poems, 'Listen


Saturday, 21 November 2009

Latest issue of Pirene's Fountain online now

'Ami Kaye' Pirene's Fountain Poetry Journal release


Welcome to the October 2009 issue of Pirene's Fountain! Besides some wonderful poetry and features, included are nominations for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize Also, from the showcase there is a link to a craft interview with Jane Hirshfield...


http://www.pirenesfountain.com/

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I'm so honoured to be among such great writers in this superb magazine.
Aine.