Three Poets Interpret Galway Museum

Western Writers' Centre puts poets to roam new museum

An innovative project will see three prominent Galway poets interpret the old and the new in the civic museum . . .

Three Galway-based poets, Crannóg magazine's Sandra Bunting, playwright, poet and painter Patricia Burke Brogan, who is a member of Galway Writers' Workshop and poet and publisher Ciarán Parkes, Marram Press, will pay homage to the new Galway Civic Museum over the next couple of weeks by wandering around its exhibits and rooms and reacting to what they see through poetry.
The project, initiated by the Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maud - will culminate in a series of nine poems, three poems from each writer, to be framed in an exhibition in the new museum.
"My hat is off to Breandán O'Heaghra of the Museum, who took to the concept immediately, and to Sandra Bunting, who worked without hesitation to gather the poets," says Fred Johnston, the Centre's manager. "Without these elements, it couldn't have happened. It was a simple idea and therefore an attractive one." It is important, he continued, that Galway's contemporary literary world is commemorated as a living element in the new Museum.
The new Galway Museum was officially inaugurated in December 2006.