Tracey calls for Poetry Jukebox for Kilcullen

A request for a 'poetry jukebox' to be installed at Kilcullen Community Library is being made to Kildare County Council, writes Brian Byrne.

Cllr Tracey O'Dwyer has a motion to that effect on the agenda for the next meeting of the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District.

The councillor references the system installed in St Stephen's Green in Dublin in June (pictured above), and says bringing poetry into public spaces like this allows people to 'encounter poems in a totally new way'.

The St Stephen's Green jukebox was the first of eight sound installations that will tour the island over the next 18 months enabling members of the public to listen to a curation of 20 poems relating to the events that led to the establishment of the Free State and the Civil War. Each Jukebox will stay in situ for three months and contains a selection of poems in English and Irish by well known poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, W B Yeats and John Hewitt, as well as lesser known writers such as Agnes O’Farrelly (Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh) and Mary Devenport O’Neill.

Pictured at its launch were Dr Sandra Collins, University Librarian at University College Dublin and Liz Kelly, Director of Poetry Ireland.

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