Tag: dublin

  • fragments 1 & 2 published belfield literary review (N°2)

    from “Violence” I am breathing. I am breathing lightly as, light as, shell — / breath as, moth — / breath as, bird — / breath moon’s faces a triptych sets Mars’ red against turquoise — a sister, (less 6) * serious now, it is — (a purple sonority pageant of silks, their faces —…

  • bow down / bough down published york literary review

    bow down a harrowed treenest-ruinedtangled leaf Its bough down bow down— a-flowering-tree (still, it flowers) Submarine blue iswhere dawn occurs  (South/South-east of here) Dawn’s lightbox runsfrom north blueto south warm The point betweenis lit-not-lit  (nor) seamed a bas-relief. Copyright 2016, 2018 Chris Murray  Bow Down from ‘bind’, first published York Literary Review, Issue #1 2016 https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/yorkliteraryreview/files/2017/05/2016-YLR-for-download.pdf Online URL https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/yorkliteraryreview/ Collected bind 2018 https://turaspress.ie/shop/bind-by-christine-murray/ 

  • Snake by Leonora Carrington

    Snake Crowned as the serpents   In the Kingdom of the mind Often are.   Where is the pyramid Of her body placed?   A mnemonic device To navigate the reptilian brain.   Bare it in mind Bare it in mind.   Snake poem and image by Leonora Carrington , from Leonora Carrington; The Celtic…

  • 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…

  • Catechism; a reading for Pussy Riot in Dublin

    Poets across the UK and Ireland come together to mark the nine-month anniversary of Pussy Riot’s performance in a Moscow Cathedral by reading from Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, English PEN’s anthology for the group. This link gives the list of locations and readings in the U.K and Ireland. Ireland’s readings are organised by Christodoulos Makris &…

  • An Irish Imprint , Cló Iar-Chonnachta.

    I have decided to build up a set of links on Small Irish Publishers, this will evolve over time and I hope to add to it. The two that come immediately to mind and that I enjoy immensely are Cló Iar-Chonnachta and the Columba Press, both of which I am adding to the Links that run down the…