Tag: Trinity College Dublin

• Ingeborg Bachmann’s Poetry in translation by Mary O’Donnell 2.

  VERILY    For Anna Akhmatova   He who has never been rendered speechless, I’m telling you, whoever merely feathers his own nest and with words –   is beyond help. Not by the shortcut nor by way of the long.   To make a single sentence tenable, to withstand the ding-dong of language.   Nobody […]

  Chris Murray

  August 21, 2013

  Contemporary Irish Women Poets, Images, Poets, translated poetry, Translation

  Hans Weigel, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Paul Celan, poetry, Translations, Trinity College Dublin

• “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 […]

  Chris Murray

  March 2, 2013

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Saturday Woman Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, new poetry, Poets

  Irish poetry, Literature, Mary O’Donnell, Master of Fine Arts, poetry, Trinity College Dublin