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  • Poetry: Bilbao by Frances Holloway

    Bilbao   Here we go merrily playing coffin games again the dead will out Have you seen the glass furnaces of Bilbao? How pretty in the sky at night those hypnotising spumes of purple green and blue but oh how putrid her river   How many times have we buried her now? and each times…

  • Review: Dispersal by Frances Holloway

      Dispersal By Frances Holloway   The clouds roll up in dairy scoops the anvil and the tower blowflies die their tiny deaths and thirsty gums shed flowers the silence falls, no magpie calls and then it moves-     the whisper wind to rattling applause   Dispersal is © Frances Holloway      Pomonal Publishing, 2014 Frances…

  • A note from Olivia Guest at Jonathan Clowes Ltd.

    Doris Lessing died a matter of days after I had received permission to carry some of the poems from her Fourteen Poems on this site indefinitely. I had put up the following note and message and see no reason to remove it. I am happy that I have carried her work for a few years.  I wrote a…

  • Poems by Doris Lessing.

    Fable When I look back I seem to remember singing. Yet it was always silent in that long warm room. Impenetrable, those walls, we thought, Dark with ancient shields.  The light Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs Spread carelessly. And the low voices Rose in the silence and were lost as…

  • the moth

     the moth, arts and literature magazine The moth, arts and literature magazine is linked at the end of this short introductory. I picked up my copy at the newsagent at Easons in Heuston station. It proved a very popular read on holiday and I barely got my hands on it. I wondered whether I should just link a poem…

  • ‘ Rare and Interesting Books’ in Westport , Co Mayo.

    EDIT : 13/12/2010 : John Hurst died last night . Rest in Peace. As always a visit to John Hurst’s Interesting books shop is a delight, a real treasure-trove, indeed, I have spoken of the shop before now. I thought to add a picture of the frontage (with the suit of armour) and though it cannot be seen…

  • ‘Regeneration’ by Eithne Strong

    Regeneration   Let me out. I’m rising out of death’s skull. Aha, old devil’s dower I have victoried. I leave you in the morning: it deals with every death and spring defeats the catafalque. You see I must believe in resurrection. This is it. Now. I was dead and am alive. Hello eternity. I can…

  • Protected: ‘pretty, useless things’ by C. Murray

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Poetry Against Blasphemy Laws : ‘Over the Edge’.

    It’s great when your government ministers do not recognise their own traditions of blasphemy, thats mostly because they have little in the way of time to read a book- though one hopes when they are fcked out next election that they will increase their literacy level… Ireland has a wonderful tradition of blasphemic utterance, in…

  • The ‘Ephemera’ Titles on Poethead.

    Anyone who reads this site (and lots do) will note that there are titles Ephemera I-VI I did not start an Ephemera Category , nor do I much feel like developing one. It’s mostly direct C+P without operating links from email leakage or indeed from one or other site that I happen to contribute on.…