Luxury Poetry Suites Kenmare, Ireland

Six new rooms, designed by Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects, Tokyo, unlike anything else at Park Hotel Kenmare.

Where the hotel's Victorian heart is warmth, character and history, these rooms are something different - contemporary, calm, and almost entirely given over to the view. Floor-to-ceiling windows look out over Kenmare Bay and its woodlands, framing the landscape beautifully.

Inside, Irish limestone and oak line the walls and floors, their textures quiet and grounding. The bathroom is all dark stone, cool to the touch, a generous shower and a deep bath sits in the window, looking out over the bay. Each room holds a carefully chosen piece from the Meehan family's art collection - works that have found their way here from collections around the world.

The kingsize bed is positioned to face the view, open the blinds when you're ready, and our wild landscape is waiting.

Each of our six new bedrooms takes its name from the words of an Irish poet.  Poetry is profound, a rearranging of language that prompts reflection and wonder.  An invitation.  To ponder poetry is a gift.  These contemporary rooms, make up our Landscape wing, complementing our spa, which shares the same name.  Here, the Irish landscape permeates the walls, filtering through the windows, finding its place in words.  The poems that we have selected are grounded in that landscape.  The rich soil beneath our feet in Kerry and across the whole of Ireland, the sloping hills and rugged mountains, the mossy oaks and tangled shrubs are alive and a part of us.  In these rooms, the Irish landscape and the Irish imagination dance.

NEST FOR THE WORD, Found in Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh

GIVEN OUR WEATHER, Found in And Soul by Eavan Boland

LATECOMERS, Found in At Three Castles Head We Catch Our Breath by Moya Cannon

POSTSCRIPT, Found in Postscript by Seamus Heaney

LOW SOUNDS BY THE SHORE, Found in The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

THYME, BASIL, AND PARSLEY, Found in Parasitic by Otto Goodwin