Category: Various
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Protected: Link to the Petition to ‘Stop SOPA Ireland’
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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‘A Work for Poets’ by George Mackay Brown.
A Work for Poets To have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read That not far from the stone A well Might open for wayfarers Here is a work for poets— Carve the…
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From ‘Skywriting’ by Dennis O Driscoll
from Skywriting by Dennis O Driscoll Reiterating whatever claim it makes, A sotto voce repetition, rain plays out a reverie-inducing music on the glass harmonica of the kitchen’s window pane. But peeling open the back door for a rain check, you hear the liquid swishing grow insistent as a whip; sibiliant drips insinuate their way between…
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Archives, Books, and a note on a renaissance for literary magazines.
In 2009 the Archives of Cologne collapsed , Speigel English reported it as ‘History in Ruins, Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians‘. It always interests me as a sometime collector of letters, books and such ephemera that Governments often do not prioritise our history in a manner that will benefit future students of culture and politics. Yesterday…
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‘An tÉan Cuaiche’ le Máire Nic Mhaoláin from Filíocht Uladh 1960-1985
Mhotaigh an scamallán an teas trína chlúmh scáinte, is scáil gréine is scáth faoi seach sa duilliúr seimh, is siosarnach ghaoithe sa ghiolcach, is ceol srutháin faoi. Rith driuch fionnadh tríd -bhí rud deoranta sa nead leis ! Thar dhuibheagán an spáis is dhiamhair na gcianta thainig an treoir. Trí dhamhna na réaltaí tríd aigéad…
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‘Various Creeds attempt to but can’t split the world of spirit from the world of shit’
Abandoned Graveyard : The Blasphemer’s Banquet, Part the IV’ ” Where some of Bradford’s past already lies life flowers in these already bright affirming eyes, though her forehead rests on some old grave she thinks that time stays still, and never flies. It won’t be long before she knows that everything vanishes with the rose…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation: ‘Digitial Books and Your Rights’.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been lobbying and releasing for quite a period on the Google Book Settlement (GBS). I have carried their links on a number of sites regarding the oft-neglected issue of Consumer data privacy in relation to the GBS.Today, so, I am carrying a link to their latest information and to their site,…
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“Looking for Mother” by Dorothy Molloy
I ransack her room. Loot and pillage. I root in her trunk. Crack open the tightly sprung boxes of satin and plush. Pierce my breast with her butterfly brooch. I pose in her hats, French berets, mantillas of lace, the veil that falls over her face, the boa she wraps round her neck. I…
Chris Murray 