'Clare Three-Legged Stool Poets' To the uninitiated it will come as a surprise that Clare is divided into three, ‘halves,’ – North or Burren, West or Corcabaiscinn and East or Thomond. . each with a highly distinctive personality of its own. In 2OO3, poets native to Clare and blow-ins from the rest of Ireland and abroad, came together for the first time to celebrate this diversity in their first Anthology,’ The Three-Legged Stool.’ A yearly Broadsheet is building up to another Anthology in 2OO8. This year they published, ‘Hidden Burren, ‘ the first of three planned , ‘poetic,’ calendars, each of which, in turn, will celebrate one of the three, ‘halves.’The Clare Three-Legged Stool Poets meet on the I3th of every month in the Old Ground Hotel in Ennis to share work and stimulate others to write. These are open meetings for anyone interested in writing to attend. Three more public, ‘events’, are organised each year in May (Thomond), August (Corcabaiscinn) and November (Burren) normally coinciding with local Festivals. On March Ist. in the Clare Museum the Clare Three-Legged Stool Group will launch its first CD. Frank Golden, Arthur Watson, Ilsa Thielan, Brian Mooney, Rob Hopkins, Michelle Bradley, John Doorty, Murdoch Lothian, Michael Reeves, Padraic Haugh and Geraldine Heatherton, among others, are all members of the Clare Three-Legged Stool Group.