Trim writers to launch latest 'Boyne Berries" magazine

Trim-born novelist Pat Dunne will launch the latest issue of 'Boyne Berries" magazine in the Castle Arch Hotel, Trim, at 8pm on Thursday 19th March. This magazine, established by the Boyne Writers" Group, based in Trim, has proven a great success, attracting submissions from writers around the world. The magazine is published twice a year and this is the fifth issue. Among those featured in this issue are Meath poets Tommy Murray, Frank Murphy and Eamon Cooke. Members of the Boyne Writers" Group are also featured. Highlights are a short poem by Anne Crinion on the changes in Trim over the years, an illustrated poem, 'Lily", by poet and graphic artist Rory O"Sullivan and a typically witty piece by Boyne Writers" chairman, Paul Egan, called 'Connections". Paddy Smith has a extract from an account of his adventures in adapting and presenting a version of Swift"s 'Tale of a Tub" for the Swift Festival last year in Trim. While the magazine has a local bias, there are also poems and prose pieces from the rest of Ireland and from the USA, Africa and the UK. The group has a website - www.boynewriters.com - and this enables writers from anywhere in the world to make contact and submit material. Limerick poet Damian McCusker has a poem included which could win a prize for most unusual title: 'Chasing a Psychologist through Moate, Co Westmeath". Brenda Brown Finnegan, a native of the state of Mississippi, pens a poem concerned with a visit she paid to Ireland recently - 'Eating My Way through Ireland 2007". Prose pieces in the issue are very strong. Lisa Frank has a story called 'Live your Fear" telling how one person put that advice into practice. Geraldine Walsh has a wonderfully restrained piece about two people who regularly see each other on a railway platform but never actually make contact. 'Arcadia Dances" by Clare Ryan is a gentle look at memories and ageing and Geraldine Creed"s 'Via a Vis" is about shopping. At the launch many of the writers included in the magazine will read their work. Admission is free and all are welcome. 'Boyne Berries" costs €7 and will be on sale in Antonia"s Bookshop, Trim, and other local outlets or can be purchased through the website.