Tag: Poet
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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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Recours Au Poème: Contemporary Poetry/ The Poetic World
Irish Poets and Reviewers call-out. Recours Au Poème is edited by Matthieu Baumier. Baumier is inviting contemporary Irish poets and poet-reviewers to consider submitting to the journal. There is a contact form link available in the base of this post for those who are interested in having their poems published in a modern multi-lingual contemporary […]
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‘The Headless Bird’ by Ileana Mãlãncioiu
According to custom, the old people have shut me away not to scare me stupid when they killed the bird, and I am listening by the bolted door to the trampling and the struggle. I twist the lock time has worn thin to forget what I have heard, to get away from this struggle where […]
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‘I have come to ask certain disrespectful questions of the tradition’; Boland on poetry’s ‘lesser-space’
‘I am an Irish poet. A woman poet. In the first category I enter the tradition of the English language at an angle. In the second, I enter my own tradition at an even more steep angle. I need to be candid about this because, of course, these two identities shape and re-shape what I have […]
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