Category: Blogging

  • Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion by Kevin Higgins

    “Over 15,500 human remains incinerated to heat UK hospitals over 2-year-period.  #800babies #outrage @amnesty” Tweet by Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life Campaign Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion     We must stop giving it away for nothing –our greatest natural resource – the Department of Finance estimates Tallaght Hospital could heat itself entirely on foetuses…

  • Protected: The Non Herein- by Michael Mc Aloran

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  • ‘World Put to Rights’ by Kelly Creighton

    World Put to Rights The dream that burst riverbanks held you; blackstrap molasses, antidote for your poison. Your plummets spraying wetness like a coin in a cascade woke no-one, not even us. The church spire grew legs, scaled bricks, ran to your side, spotlighted. I put glass over that glow. Quiet-huff of your refuge, flailing…

  • “We Protect the Weak” by Kimberly Campanello

    We Protect the Weak We protect the weak and call it love or ethics. For the safety of our students this door must remain closed at all times. Ani yalda tova. I am a good girl, I tell the Israeli jeweler who is impressed with my Hebrew. Someone nearby says, Fuck Israel. I offer, I…

  • ‘Pussy-Riot Forever : The Body’ by Philo Ikonya and Helmuth A. Niederle

    Pussy-Riot Forever : The Body   I riot, You riot, We riot.   The body riots.   Arterial riot Breast riot Cheek riot Eye riot Finger riot Gall bladder riot Intestine riot Jaw riot Knee riot Liver riot Mouth riot Nose riot Prick riot Palate riot   Riot in Queues   Renal riot Stomach riot Testes…

  • Catechism; a reading for Pussy Riot in Dublin

    Poets across the UK and Ireland come together to mark the nine-month anniversary of Pussy Riot’s performance in a Moscow Cathedral by reading from Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, English PEN’s anthology for the group. This link gives the list of locations and readings in the U.K and Ireland. Ireland’s readings are organised by Christodoulos Makris &…

  • Protected: At the Crane Bar ; Crannóg #31

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  • ‘Sabine’ by C. Murray

    Morning, and his rust-coloured shadow is cast onto the floor, beneath it the stone flags show their cracks and flaws, they are brown maroonish or black. That he may come in to wound her that he may come in to love her is the same thing. There are two pots There are bowls, there is…

  • And Other Poems

    This is a brief note about the And Other Poems blog which is owned and written by Josephine Corcoran. What a breath of fresh air the blog is, judging by contemporary availability of good poetry (and critique). To say that poetry is sorely neglected in the face of market-forces is a wild understatement, but more polemic anon. “And…

  • Doris Lessing’s Poems

    Olivia Guest of Jonathan Clowes Ltd. has informed me today that they are willing to extend my Doris Lessing licence and so I have returned the poems here. Thanks to Olivia and Jonathan Clowes for an extended opportunity to share Doris Lessing’s work on Poethead.    I spent some time in 2011 looking for permission to…