Hungary provides inspiration for Alan's new book of poetry
WISE WORDS 'TERROR HÁZA' LAUNCED IN CARLOW LIBRARY
Poet Alan Garvey at the launch of his new book ?Terror Haza? with Marian Duffy, who lauched the book and Tara Kelly.
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A CARLOW writer has just launched his third book of poetry after finding inspiration in the history of Hungary.
Alan Garvey's new tome, Terror Háza, meaning 'house of terror' is named after a museum which is a monument to victims of terror and dictorship.
The collection was appropriately launched by Marian Duffy, the Adult Education Officer with the VEC, last week in Carlow library.
Other poems in the collection were written after a trip to the AuschwitzBirkenau concentration and death camp and address the responsibility of the individual while the second part of the collection returns to contemporary Ireland.
Alan, one of the co-ordinators of the Pygmalion Writers' Group and tutor of a creative writing course held in Artforms Gallery, began writing the book after a visit to the museum in Budapest.
This is the third collection Alan has published with Lapwing Publications, a small independent publisher based in Belfast.
He holds a MA in creative writing, and has appeared in a number of anthologies with poets such as Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, Michael Ondaatje and Leonard Cohen.
