Tag: Eithne Strong

  • A Celebration of Irish Women Poets on Bloomsday 2012

    Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a writer and poet, who has contributed poems and translations to the blog over sometime. I am linking here to her poetry collections page  La Pucelle   In the hush of my father’s house, before dusk rustles over the horizon, I take off the dress my mother made -it’s as ruby red as…

  • ‘Strip-Tease’ by Eithne Strong.

    Strip-Tease   A poet must talk in riddles if he will not risk himself   for fear of public eye and tongue blaspheming privacies :   a host of leeches sucking parallels carnivores to strip his shivering secrecies   wrapped intricately. he should be silent or speak out.   No one asked for his arbitrary…

  • ‘No Earthly Estate’, the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh, Padraic Colum and Eithne Strong.

    The title of this small post and book recommendation is somewhat misleading, the post is not wholly about Patrick Kavanagh‘s poetry. I have been reading No Earthly Estate in conjunction with poetry by Padraic Colum and Eithne Strong during this week. Having today published a poem by Eithne Strong, and indeed there a few of the Poet’s Circuits…

  • “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…