Tag: Dolmen Press

  • ‘Ireland’ by Richard Ryan

    Ireland That ragged leaking raft held between sea and sea its long forgotten cable melting into deeper darkness where, at the root of it, the slow sea circles and chews. Nightly the dark- ness lands like hands to mine downward. springing tiny leaks till dawn finds field is bog, bog lake. by Richard Ryan Ravenswood.…

  • “Up and Out” by Eithne Strong

    Up and Out At this empyrean time when we have gained the moon in our nineteen seventies’ boots we smash barbarian heels on bowels and balls of internee; jag flesh on spikes of glass, fry babies, sear with liquid fire old men, depose the irretrievable brain; slit, mutilate, in cruelty far outlashing jungle territorial lusts. North…

  • ‘The Poet’s Circuits’ , a poem by Padraic Colum (in dedication).

    Mention has been made before on the Poethead blog of The Poet’s Circuits, Collected Poems of Ireland  But I will mention them again anyway, for those readers who have an interest in Medieval Ireland, the Guild System, and in Colum’s editing of this beautiful book. Here are the Poet’s Circuits : Circuit One: The House…