International poetry event ‘will exclude Limerick’

THE witty ditty known worldwide as the Limerick has been banished from a poetry festival launched yesterday in the city that gave the famous poem its name.

The Limerick - a poem of five lines recited in many languages - is not being entertained this week at Cuisle, Limerick’s International Poetry Festival.

Organisers of the festival, now in its fifth year, wants to take a more serious look at poetry and this was not the time for the Limerick in Limerick.