Tag: Arts

• Poems by Doris Lessing.

  Fable When I look back I seem to remember singing. Yet it was always silent in that long warm room. Impenetrable, those walls, we thought, Dark with ancient shields.  The light Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs Spread carelessly. And the low voices Rose in the silence and were lost as […]

  Chris Murray

  October 29, 2011

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, How Words Play, Letters, Uncategorized

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Arts, Doris Lessing, poetry, Scorpion Press, University of Tulsa, Wikipedia

• Affixing the Imprimatur, queer art and blasphemy in Cork.

  

  Wherein the definition of art and who gets the imprimatur?   I find myself at a loss regarding how the problem of blasphemy is being discussed in Cork. There has been no art-historical analysis of queer art, there has been little media reference to the issue of the 2006-2009 Defamation Bill, and discussion on one political site […]

  Chris Murray

  June 26, 2011

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Blasphemies, Censorships, Images, Sex (mature category), Translation

  Arts, blasphemy, Cork, Ireland, Visual Arts

• Paul Muldoon and the Art of Poetry, No.87, Paris Review

  The Griffin Poetry Prize has been making excellent use of Social media, including Twitter to publicise this year’s prize list and as little of note happens in the Irish Sunday papers, I thought to add in by way of my blog their link to the Paris Review interview with Paul Muldoon . Poetry readers familiar with this site will know that it is  a rare occurrence for me to link to […]

  Chris Murray

  May 22, 2011

  Censorships, Dispossession, Nomadics

  Arts, Censorship, Literature, Online Writing, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, social media, Susan Mc Keown

• Simone Weil the quintessential outsider, women and mysticism

  Simone Weil was an outsider, this she clearly stated in her personal letters and essays which are gathered in fragments or in small volumes, such as in Waiting for God. Those meagre fragments that have been published are not really readily accessible save on the curriculums of theological colleges (in modular forms) and presented in […]

  Chris Murray

  May 21, 2011

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Letters, Nomadics, Spinnin’ Threads, Transformation, Translation

  A Saturday Woman Poet, alienation, Arts, mysticism, outsider poetry, Philosophy, simone weil, totalitarianism

• The Dublin Poetry Review.

  It’s good to see the Dublin Poetry Review on Facebook and online, it’s Heroes Congress is an eclectic mix of writing heroes presented in PDF format and protected by the use of Creative Commons license, this is what Poetry and innovation is about : accessibility and generosity. There are 99 published poets in the Heroes […]

  Chris Murray

  May 15, 2011

  A Saturday Woman Poet, How Words Play, Images, Poet Bloggers

  Arts, Creative Commons licenses, Dublin Poetry Review, poetry, writing

• Online sounds , the spoken word.

  Writers encounter archives mostly, and sound-work is no exception, for instance I encountered UBUWEB whilst researching Celtic mouth Music and Joesph Beuys. Kenneth Goldsmith’s idea to make film, poetry and music available online was sheer avant-gardeism. I have written about UBUWEB before now here, and I recommend the Poetry Foundation link at the top of this page as an […]

  Chris Murray

  May 14, 2011

  Blogging, How Words Play, Images, Poet Bloggers, Sound and Voice, Translation, Visions

  Arts, Kenneth Goldsmith, Literature, poetry, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud, UbuWeb

• A link to the poetry of Assia Djebar, from the Pierre Joris blog.

    My Index of Women Poets evolved from an idea to catalogue published Poethead posts in The Saturday Woman Poet Category (and tags) directly to a special page and thereby increase the visibility and searchability of women poets. I thought to edit the category and to create an index for poets, their translators, and in some cases their editors. Thus both Poethead indices have organically evolved, […]

  Chris Murray

  May 7, 2011

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Saturday Woman Poet, Blogging, Ephemera, Nomadics, Poet Bloggers, translated poetry, Walkabout, Women Writers

  Allen Fisher, Arts, Assia Djebar, Pierre Joris, poetry, Wesleyan University Press, WordPress

• the moth

   the moth, arts and literature magazine The moth, arts and literature magazine is linked at the end of this short introductory. I picked up my copy at the newsagent at Easons in Heuston station. It proved a very popular read on holiday and I barely got my hands on it. I wondered whether I should just link a poem […]

  Chris Murray

  April 30, 2011

  Uncategorized

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Arts, magazine, Shane Connaughton, Tishani Doshi

• ‘Evening Room’ by Anna Akhmatova

  I speak in those words suddenly That rise once in the soul. So sharply comes The musty odour of an old sachet, A bee hums on a white chrysanthemum. And the room , where light strikes through slits, Cherishes love, for here it is still new. A bed, with a french inscription over it, Reading […]

  Chris Murray

  April 9, 2011

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Saturday Woman Poet, translated poetry

  Anna Akhmatova, Arts, Carol Ann Duffy, poetry, Selected Poems, Song

• Poetry and digitisation; how derivatives occur.

  The meaning of collaborative work in Poetry and Literature. The author is entitled to ownership of their work. In poetic terms, derivatives do occur, mostly in music and in translations. As stated before on this blog, derivatives are seen as adding to the original works, once attribution is established. The fact that there are appalling […]

  Chris Murray

  March 23, 2011

  Blogging, Censorships, How Words Play, Poet Bloggers, Translation

  Arts, Best practice, Copyright, Creative Commons, fairuse, poetry, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Ireland