Category: Art

  • A Saturday Woman Writer , Doris Lessing.

    I have referred here before to the book that creeps me out the most,The Fifth Child , indeed I took down my copy again last night to read up for today’s post; but I ended up deweeding the garden where my tree was being invaded by a parasitic  alien Clematis, and my rose’s roots being pushed…

  • Ágnes Nagy’s Poetic Prose translated by Hugh Maxton.

    From ‘Leaf-Stalks’ “Yet I would not dismiss the nonentities. The things that nearly are not. Journey of woodbine, ampelopsis on the ancient walls (of garden and its house), clutch of tendrils and trailing plants, the shuffling of their minute paws, with pads of suction for terminals of their thread-like minute fingers, and claws, green zig-zag path of lizards…

  • ‘Maudlin’ By Sylvia Plath.

    Mud-Matressed under the sign of the hag In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin Gibbets her curse, the moon’s man, Faggot-bearing jack in his crackless egg; Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig He kings it, navel-knit to no groom, But at the price of a pin-stitched skin Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.…

  • “Forms ; A Sampler” by Chris Allen

    Forms; A Sampler for C.M What would they have said had you heard the whisper slip ravenous up the avenue on fat and awkward dialect towards the parlour comfort of an army of the wizened faces of their mother, who settled in her embroideries internalising the potential of an inclusive act, to fuse the eschatological…

  • Covering Paintings and twiddling with art !

    Just the inevitable protest at the stupid scandal caused by someone who thought to have a bare breast exposed would cause offence to people! This image is by Tiepolo and entitled Time Uncovering Truth, the bosom was over-painted to lots of protests and outrage and is doing the blog rounds. I think great offence has been caused…

  • The Night Garden II. Eilis Ní Dhuibhne and Alice Maher.

    Alice Maher’s  exhibition at the RHA is called The Bestiary, The above image is from a little book of meditations, The Night-Garden, by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, which accompanies the work. I am always fond of artistic and poetic collaborative work and have thus gotten myself  a copy of the book for the little shelves.  

  • ‘The Brightest Jewel’ by E. Charles Nelson and Dr. Eileen Mc Cracken

    1998 saw the bicentennial of our National Botanic Gardens, which started my first cycle of poems and images, some of which I exhibited in a group show called Ramus (Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin). The gardens flourish with two of the houses now restored to their former glory, the Curvilinear Range and the Palm House; distinguished by the lolling cat, the…

  • More Iranian Women Poets: Shahnaz A’Lami.

    I have put two posts on the blog with poems by Farideh Hassazadeh (Mostavi) So today I was looking at other Iranian Women writers and found a beautiful looking poem by Shahnaz A’Lami. I say ‘ beautiful looking’  as I cannot read the Original Persian, but  I have seen an English translation . The subtitle of this site is…