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GEOFF WARD
From a bothy in Beara...
Beara has been an inspiration to my writing in recent years. Here are my photographs of the scenes that complement the eight short prose-poems under the title From a bothy in Beara in A Raft of Dreams...
The 'bothy', 1910
Our house at Rossmackowen, with Hungry Hill in the background, pictured on an old postcard dating from about 1910.
1 Pallas Strand
Today I cut driftwood...
2 Eyeries Point
A sunstream silver...
3 Black Rocks
A sky bruised...
4 Travaud Strand
Across the water...
5 Coulagh Bay
Salt in the sad eye...
6 Derreenataggart West
The stones salute the day...
7 Gortagraffer
A length of sturdy dowling....
8 Pallas Strand
A solitary shoe, morose...
The 'bothy', 1980s
This painting of our house by George W Gill was done in the late 1980s for a previous owner who kindly gave it to us.
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