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 the Paris Review interviews , but that I think they are always worthwhile.
Paul Muldoon came to Tara in 2008 to celebrate our unique heritage, along with Susan Mc Keown and Seamus Heaney , this was a protest, a lament and an attempt to support those campaigners who had fought through Ireland’s courts and the EU about radical fast-track planning. One Irish newspaper of note reported the Turn at Tara as ‘Heaney celebrates Heritage Week’ ! One expects this type of bilge as a matter of course in an undifferentiated mass-media that distrusts ideas. But I digress –
Related Links
- The Paris Review interview is here : http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/30/the-art-of-poetry-no-87-paul-muldoon
- The Turn at Tara (2008) is here http://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/a-turn-at-tara-august-28th-2011/
- Poethead piece is here : http://poethead.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/from-wraiths-iii-white-nights-by-seamus-heaney/
- Anne Sexton (Paris Review) : http://poethead.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/paris-review-anne-sexton-the-art-of-poetry-no-15/
I said it once this week but it bears repeating , radical censorship is unnecessary in Ireland, a media group-think can just marginalise to sustain intellectual poverty, and what better way than to push trash-culture, ego-driven self publicity and other ephemera of failure ??
Chris Murray 