Birdsong

(i.m. Micheal Hartnett)

The small bird
For the high branch
And the sweetest song.

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Biography

Fred Johnston is a recipient of Arts Council Bursary in Literature 2001: Being Anywhere - New & Selected Poems (Lagan Poetry) just published 2002; setting up Galway Writers' Centre ; working with Kinvara Writers' Group, which is setting up a website. He will be reading at the John Hewitt School in late July.