Kathleen McCracken, winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2019, reads her winning poem, ‘Chironomy’ at the Seamus Heaney Homeplace in Bellaghy.
Cheironomy (or Chironomy) is a form of music conducting, typically with choral music and choral groups (choirs), where the use of hand gestures directs musical performance (from Wikipedia).
copyright information: The copyright of this poem lies with the poet, Kathleen McCracken; it may NOT be republished without permission of Kathleen McCracken (kl.mccracken@ulster.ac.uk). The anthology, ‘Find’ is © Community Arts Partnership 2019.