Tag: Freda Laughton

  • The North, Issue 61 (January 2019)

    Now I am a Tower of Darkness As a child I knew How, beyond the lamp’s circuit, Lay the shadow of the shadow Of this darkness,   Waiting with an arctic kiss In the well of the staircase, Ready to drape the bed with visions No eyelids can vanquish.    Now I am a Tower…

  • A Celebration of Irish Women Poets on Bloomsday 2017

    “Canal Walk Home” by Gillian Hamill   What is it About the power of the water To heal hurts   Three lads sit on the boardwalk They hardly look like delicate sorts. And yet they gaze out Contemplate The rushing rippling mottles of the Undulating lake Can soothe souls.   Car lights are reflected in…

  • “Just as the blackbird strikes up his clear note” by C. Murray

    From, A Transitory House: A suite of poems performed at Ó Bheal based in Freda Laughton’s Now I am a Tower of Darkness (2016) & first published in 1916 – 2016: An Anthology of Reactions, Editors, John Liddy & Dominic Taylor (Limerick Writers Centre, 2016)   dead hearts, dead dreams, dead days of ecstasy, Can…

  • Dear Freda Laughton, your poems are being discussed at Jacket2 Magazine

    Emma Penney has verified Freda Laughton’s date of death as having occurred in 1995. Freda Laughton (1907-1995). This is Laughton’s current archive at RASCAL (Special Collections at Queen’s University Belfast) (EDIT, May 2019) Dear Freda Laughton, Your Poems are being discussed at Jacket2 Magazine Walt Hunter writes for Jacket2 on Dave Lordan’s interview with Emma Penney…

  • “Now I am a Tower of Darkness” and Other Poems by Freda Laughton

    “Now I am a Tower of Darkness” and Other Poems by Freda Laughton

    Now I am a Tower of Darkness   As a child I knew How, beyond the lamp’s circuit, Lay the shadow of the shadow Of this darkness,   Waiting with an arctic kiss In the well of the staircase, Ready to drape the bed with visions No eyelids can vanquish.   Now I am a…