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Oxfam have launched a new poetry calander for 2007. The poems are juxtaposed by the work of 12 artists from the Blue Leaf gallery including this painting by Leonard Sexton.

This years selection is much more interesting than 2006. The launch included an emotional reading by Mary Melvin Geoghegan of her poem Peter's Twenty Fifth Birthday and two quirky sparkle eyed poems from Anne Deane and Mary O'Donnell. Caitríona O Reilly's Ovum was in her own words, a jokey sort of poem, although we can take that with a pinch of salt. It includes the great ending:

as that double o in spermatozoon,
which enters by its own locomotion-
the flagellum, its tiny whip and scourge.

You can get a copy of the calendar from the wonderful staff at Oxfam Books Parliament Street Dublin.