Category: Art

  • Poems from “Strange Country” by Kimberly Campanello

    These poems were first published by Tears in The Fence and are © Kimberly Campanello Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana. She now lives in Dublin and London. She was the featured poet in the Summer 2010 issue of The Stinging Fly, and her pamphlet Spinning Cities was published by Wurm Press in 2011 . Her…

  • Honour the women of Irish Theatre

    I very rarely add petitions on Poethead, but in the case of The Abbey Theatre’s baffling exclusion of women artists from the 1916-2016 Centenary I am willing to make an exception for a number of days. The issue of authority in the literary arts has always been problematic in Ireland. In poetry, in literature, and…

  • ‘Janus- His Mistress Responds’ and other poems by Peter O’Neill

    Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus, by Diego Velasquez (1617-1618) For Máire Holmes Through the serving hatch, or silent butler, The Christ is seen at the moment of revelation, While the maid, in the foreground, averts her eyes From the immediate task at hand. The bowl, which is falling from the table, Like a…

  • “Blackbird” and other poems by Imogen Forster

    Testudo   A bone-hard carapace, a shell cast on a hot shore, emptied by the labour of leaving the nurturing sea, scraping broad ribbons up the sand’s glassy slope .   Gasping, digging a damp hole, she lays round, sticky eggs, a hundred leathery balls. Then spent, noon-dried, she dies, picked clean by quick scavengers.…

  • ‘L’Heure Bleu’ poems by Aad de Gids and C. Murray

    L’Heure Bleu a dwell in the night a, sigh. a dervish dislodged a textile, sigh it is the night it is a night on earth the hedges prematurely in bloom with almost lightning, flowers so, white and optic so,opioid a scent as some people sit on a bench and conspicuous leaves on the forestrial floor.…

  • Sequences — (After Francis Bacon) by Michael McAloran

    Sequences — (After Francis Bacon)   2…meat unto collapse/ stead lapse/ the lung’s abort in headless barrage the head is/ traces the/ meat’s sarcophagus is the light surrounding/ the forms that bind the subject-object/being in this from onset’s claim/ the stripping down of/ in gradual of irreversible/ meat does not climb it cannot/ it/ blind…

  • ‘The House of Altogether Nothing’ & Other poems by Jan Sand

    The House of Altogether Nothing The countryside in which it stands Is broken with large jagged rocks. Its trees are dark, from northern lands, Whose branches scratch the sky; boney bough knocks One against the other. Cold winds finger through Odd strands of captured human hair, Torn newspaper strips look as if they grew Amongst…

  • Poetry : Cut Neck by Zarina Zabrisky

    CUT NECK   HE (standing with a razor in one hand, a photograph in the other)   This neck connects Her head to her body. Her true self To the garden of her delight I should have married A real woman A woman Who acts like a wife Whose head belongs to me Just like…

  • of the nothing of by Michael McAloran

    of the nothing of . Paperback: 182 Pages Oneiros Books 2014 Cover is © Tadhg Murray 　  …I genuflect to nothing, in a vacancy of shit..   (from of the none exposed) Michael McAloran’s of the nothing of is subtly related to another of his works with Oneiros Books All Stepped/Undone. While both collections have a loosely tripartite structure, in…

  • “The Geometry of Love Between the Elements” by Fióna Bolger

    Caught in the Cross Hairs   I bury my face in the thickness of your hair the darkness, the softness, the smell raw brain sweat, your innermost thoughts desire become scent   beneath the softness the hard skull skin a barrier you need and I want to penetrate   to enter see the wiring observe…