Jennifer Horgan: This Christmas, I want what a screen can never give me — the joy of looking at those I love
Poet Patrick Kavanagh tells us, in his own way, that we need to return to simplicity, come back from a knowledge that is useless in certain ways.
I was asked to read a poem in celebration of winter at Cork’s City Library this month. It was part of the closing ceremony for One City One Book, organised by the wonderful Patricia Looney.
I sat with my parents that morning, reading poems aloud. I didn’t have to read my own work, so I looked to Ireland’s rich canon for options.
