It isn’t often I attend an event to read just one poem, but that’s what I’ll be doing on Friday night, in support of the M3 Motorway and the Hill of Tara Litigation Fund. The venue is Drimnagh Castle, Dublin, on Friday March 24, 6pm to midnight. A lot of money needs to be raised, so help in any way you can.

For the record, this is the poem I’ll read, which was published in Dialogue in Fading Light:

THE TIME OF NO TIME

In the two thousand and tens,
when mass diasporas
were signs of the time,
and the way of our lives was determined
by fuel profiteers
and apostate corporations,
the local oracles of boom
poured the dividend of our labours
into logical concrete rivers
that flowed to our dormitory towns.

It was when an ancient, holy place
mattered less
than minutes lost
in a race to the next frustration.
Driven out of our own estate
by the profits of the nouveau-élite,
daily we spent hours
in the isolation units of our cars,
stuck in the loop of the round trip.
It was the time of no time

from DIALOGUE IN FADING LIGHT, New Island Books, © Philip Casey, 2005