Tag: Irish poetry
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“Colour” and Other Poems by Paul Casey
Colour for T.S.Eliot and after fourteen poets The purple stole away from the skins of plums Everywhere we turned became a maze of colour I protect you with an indigo coloured whisper You curve the ends of my black and white day Coffee brown, is mole, dying leaves, dry earth But smell led me here, […]
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“The Dream Clock” and other visual poetry by Susan Connolly
Susan Connolly’s first collection of poetry For the Stranger was published by the Dedalus Press in 1993. She was awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry in 2001. Her second collection Forest Music was published by Shearsman Books in 2009. Shearsman published her chapbook The Sun-Artist: a book of pattern poems in 2013. […]
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“I Was Swallowed by a Harry Clarke Window” and other poems by Niamh Boyce
I was swallowed by a Harry Clark window. All that flesh. So exquisitely etched. Decked in magenta, Prussian, cobalt, lemon even the halos are mandarin. And, oh so sweet are those cool palms that peek from viridian pashminas to pray and bless. I’m on the side altar, reverent, gazing mouth open, keeping clear […]
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Kate O’Shea is a crack poet
Eggs His poems are words upon words like eggs smeared with henshit. They could be free range or organic – who knows? Too calculated to be risky. I buy 30 for 1.99 in Liberties Market and dodge small boys with girls’ earrings who have never heard of Jackson Pollock but make an impression on […]
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Review: All Stepped / Undone – by Michael McAloran.
the griefscape as no-place: All Stepped / Undone – by Michael McAloran. endless ribcage of the sky / the glut of blood beneath and a pulse of shit / dry your eyes / it’s just beginning ( p123 , all stepped / undone – ) is © Michael McAloran All Stepped /Undone- is Michael McAloran’s fifth full poetry collection, and […]
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‘Swallows’ and other poems by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Swallows The knitting needles drew melodies from silence as stitches seemed to follow one another like swallows alighting upon a wire, watching the tiny dress of softest yellow wool grow like a sunrise waiting for she who waited within. She, who came and left all too soon. Stretched and stitched, I lie empty, raw, alone […]
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In Damage Seasons by Michael McAloran
‘Clear the air! Clean the sky! Wash the wind! Take the stone from the stone, take the skin from the arm, take the muscle from the bone, and wash them. Wash the stone, wash the bone, wash the brain, wash the soul, wash them wash them!’ The Chorus , from Murder In The Cathedral by T.S […]
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“Marriage Advice, 1951” and “Waiting” by Mary O’Donnell
Marriage Advice, 1951 Glossy women made her tremble, every word shiny and sure, we’re going to give Jenny a make-over, Jen, the decaying building, the clueless relic. They made her sweat, even more, those women with Dior skirts and nipped-in waists, who warned the night before the wedding about being prepared. But it was […]
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‘Veracity and Other Stories’ poems by Sarah Clancy
The following two poems are by Sarah Clancy from a forthcoming collection of prose and poetry, called Friction. Veracity and other stories for Alice Kennelly I’ve lived in four different decades today stepped onto three continents I took no visas no tickets no passports I wrote my own bill of passage I forged […]
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