Tag: Art

  • Signature

      Poems from ‘Signature’   thistle roll   thistle roll twig sphere scatters a   thicket clump looks alive, it is red-tipped    a feather-blown bag-blown   bird-corpse let lie its throat opened out   purple the thistle -blown hue, purple the cry   tear   a field of ewes, their winter wool loose, blown…

  • Orphans from Poetry Ireland’s Forum

    Some years ago poets and emergent writers used a forum on Poetry Ireland for discussion, testing poetry, and commenting on the work of others. The idea was good, although the tech wasn’t so hot. After some discussion with the then Admin it was decided to have a place (not online) where poems could be published…

  • Kate O’Shea is a crack poet

    Eggs   His poems are words upon words like eggs smeared with henshit. They could be free range or organic – who knows? Too calculated to be risky. I buy 30 for 1.99 in Liberties Market and dodge small boys with girls’ earrings who have never heard of Jackson Pollock but make an impression on…

  • Review: All Stepped / Undone – by Michael McAloran.

    the griefscape as no-place: All Stepped / Undone – by Michael McAloran. endless ribcage of the sky / the glut of blood beneath and a pulse of shit / dry your eyes / it’s just beginning ( p123 ,  all stepped / undone – ) is © Michael McAloran All Stepped /Undone- is Michael McAloran’s fifth full poetry collection, and…

  • Bone Orchard Poetry, a blogzine for working poets and writers

    Bone Orchard Poetry is variously active on discussion sites and uses social-media well. This is what writers refer to as bloody good innovative web-use. Editor Michael McAloran keeps the blogzine brief in description, ‘ An explorative blogzine of the Bleak/ the Surreal/ the Dark/ Absurd and the Experimental. ‘ There you have it encapsulated in a single…

  • Poems from ‘Mindskin’ by Antonella Zagaroli

    from Fan-Locked (2001-2004) The sun embroiders the hinges on the door Fan-locked the woman with the curdled breast mirrors the colours one by one mortifies their harmony with blood between her thighs She’s jealous of every new whim kneads her tongue with hankerings for salt Replies without eyes to a world in silence   Fan-Locked 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…

  • ‘The Storm’ , by Rainbow Reed

    The Storm “On granite rock, The woman sat. Damp hair trickled down her back, Azure highlights glimmering, Golden curls shimmering. Seaweed sparkled; waving wildly White foam horses rear and pound, Surging through the rocky mound. Crashing against the sleeping stone. Woman sits and Stares alone.   Black cloud glares, Fog horn blares, Lightning screams across…

  • Experimenting with new poetry on poethead

    I  have decided to inaugurate a new poetry section on the blog, which will be happening on the first Saturday of every month in the saturday woman poet category of Poethead. The first poem, Nine, by Brittany Hill will be followed in March by another poet’s work. I hope to keep this up until summer, when…

  • Mick Heaney , Arts vs politics: We haven’t got the balance right

    This brief post comprises a link to Mick Heaney’s article ( Irish Times ,  18/11/2011 )  regarding a symbiotic relation between the politics of the State and Irish Arts in Ireland. I have decided to link the article here,  as blogging is a way of retaining record of items of interest that might otherwise be subsumed beneath current issues. I was…