Publisher: Enniscorthy Launch Pad (supported by Wexford County Council)
Book Type: Collection
#Pages: 24 A4-Size
ISSN: 2009-0587
Other: NEW - Mint Condition
Scallta Comment: Highly praised, and well received, collection of Wexford writings. Featured at the 2006 Wexford Book Festival.

A collection of writings from County Wexford, Ireland.

"This publication grew quite naturally from the many Launch Pad nights that have place at various venues in Enniscorthy between 2003 and the present. Launch Pad’s mission is to provide a platform for aspiring writers in the area where they can meet to play their songs and tunes, read their poems, stories, and memoirs. It is essential that we provide venues for artists where they can gather and allow their work out into the world. Failure to do this may push them under-the-radar: all of us believe that what we write should be heard and read. It is a triumph of Launch Pad that it has managed to provide not just a series of places where people can gather to listen and perform, but also places of such warm ambience and understated style. Also, Launch Pad evenings, despite their serious intentions, are fun and full of moments of wild humour where everyone can feel comfortable. Aspiring artists, unlike sportsmen and women, are not confined by age and in this way those that have appeared at the events, and are part of this collection, truly reflect the community’s demographics. Another feature of our evenings has been the time given to the project by writers who have already been widely published and this has helped Launch Pad develop. For this publication, I have gathered together submissions from many who took part in the evenings, from those who participated in the July 2004 poetry and fiction workshops, and from others who will read with us at the launch of this publication for the first time. Our writers have their fingers on the pulses of both our history and our present, let us hear and read what it is they have to say today." - Eamonn Wall - Editor

Table of Contents:

• BETTY THOMPSON … LOOKING FOR THE WESTIN HOTEL
• MARY REDMOND … THE ONSET OF SUMMER
• SUSIE WHITE … GROWN UP WAYS
• SEAN CLARKIN … SHELF LIFE
• JIM MAGUIRE … MAN ADRIFT
• ALAN DOBBS … UNDIMMING (#1)
• ANTHONY DOYLE … TO SYLVIA
• M.J. O'REILLY … THE BUSKER
• MICHAEL RYAN … DOGMA
• ALEXANDRA VASS … SHE WAKES
• PADDY KEHOE … WHERE DOES THIS BURNISHED SONG GO?
• JOE MURPHY … CITYSCAPE
• MARY BLACKBURN … CARNSORE
• PAUL O'REILLY … WILD IN THE COUNTRY
• NIALL WALL … THE BLACKBIRD
• PHILIP CASEY … THE WINDFALL OAK
• DENIS COLLINS … FATHER CRIED AT THE WALTONS
• FINTAN MURPHY … VILLANELLE FOR MY FATHER
• KEN MCGANNON … BLAST!
• ANDY DOYLE … THE GIG
• LAURA CLEARY … BEAUTIFUL IRELAND
• MARIA CLIFFORD … PEOPLE
• CARA KEARNEY … NO-ONE HOME
• JOHN KELLY … BOYLE'S KITCHEN
• CLARE LEONARD … HARD MAN
• EAMONNWALL … SALT LAKE CITY
• HELEN KAVANAGH … SILVER RIBBONS
• NORMA DOYLE … AG DÉANAMH
• PHILIP QUIRKE … VIKING SETTLEMENT
• DRUCILLA WALL … INDIAN INVISIBILITY LESSON #1
• MICHAEL O'CONNOR … PAMPLONA
• PATRICA MCNALLY … ANGEL BUMPS
• CAOIMHE STAFFORD … E.R. DRAMA QUEEN
• P.J. WHITMORE … SHEM MOONEY AND THE MURDER
• NOEL ARMSTRONG … MY GLASSES
• AIDEEN CARTY … IN CONFIDENCE
• CAROLINE DOYLE … THE SIGN
• MARGARET GALVIN … THE TRAVELLING SHOP
• JAMIE MURPHY … REMEMBER
• MIKE KELLY … PENALTY POINTS
• GLORIA BINNIONS … PRODDY WODDY, CATTY WATTY
• PETER FINTAN HALL … THE WILD BEAST
• MOGUE DOYLE … THE COLD AND THE NOISE