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BAFFLE festival is a festival of poetry and craic for everyone with an emphasis on performance. Poetry by the people for the people.
The Bowes Academic Fellowship and Fraternity of Literary Esoterics had it’s conception in1984 in a small but select, and sadly now extinct, drinking establishment in Loughrea Co. Galway named Bowes -Kennedy. It was there through the stimuli of alcohol, nicotine and general camaraderie that a suitably inebriated gathering found itself talking along the lines of Anthony Hope’s: “I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes, your ignorance cramps my conversation”.
Thus BAFFLE was created with the intention of forming a catalyst of poets where there would be no censorship of language, revelation, humour, or innovation. Indeed these attributes would only serve to emphasise and enhance MacCauley’s adage “Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.”.
The Original Poetry Slam
………….and, much, much more!
A unique view on poetry and life
Since it’s inception, the group has met regularly for the performance of their works, the venue being one of the local pubs.
The basic concept being that participants compose and perform a poem on a given theme, which is announced a few weeks in advance to give aspiring poets time to hone their craft. Of course, some poets are notorious for scribbling their final lines soon after reaching the pub, and we really should not mention the people who only begin writing when they get there!
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27/10/2006 -
29/10/2006 |
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