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Brendan Kennelly Literary Trust (BKLT)

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The BKLT celebrates & promotes the life & work of Brendan Kennelly, one of Ireland's foremost poets, educators, & writers. Our vision is to ensure that his poetry & literary scholarship continue to inspire twenty-first-century audiences around the world.

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Brendan Kennelly Literary Trust (BKLT)@bkltrust.bsky.social · 2w ago

Brendan Kennelly’s poem ‘Things I Might Do’ originally appeared in The Book of Judas (1991), published by Bloodaxe Books. It was subsequently included in The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems, edited by Terence Brown and Michael Longley (Bloodaxe Books, 2011)

Things 1 Might Do I thought of things I might do with my heart. Should I make it into a month like October, A chalice for the sad madness of leaves That I might raise in homage to the year's end? Should I make it into a small white church in A country-place where bells are childhood prayers? Or a backroom of a brothel in Dublin Where the trade of somethinglikelove endures? Should I make it a judge to judge itself? Or a caring face in a memory-storm? Or a bed For Judas dreaming of the tree: There now, there now, rest as best you can, Darling, rest your treacherous head And when you've rested, come home to me?
Brendan Kennelly Literary Trust (BKLT)@bkltrust.bsky.social · 3w ago

President Michael D Higgins said he enjoyed "the gift of friendship with Brendan Kennelly for many years". "As a poet, Brendan Kennelly had forged a special place in the affections of the Irish people”. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Watch: Brendan Kennelly recites much-loved poem 'Begin'

President Michael D Higgins also paid his respects to the Kerry poet and said he enjoyed 'the gift of friendship with Brendan Kennelly for many years'

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