Tag: Katie Donovan
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A Celebration of Irish Women Poets on Bloomsday 2016
The Middle of April by Fiona Bolger After Robert Hass i whan that Aprille with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote my grandfather quotes Chaucer from the vinyl ii he knows more now we will too soon iii in the spring pelmet of green…
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A Celebration of Women’s Poetry for International Women’s Day 2016
Both a page and performance poet, Anne Tannam’s work has appeared in literary journals and magazines in Ireland and abroad. Her first book of poetry Take This Life was published by WordOnTheStreet in 2011 and her second collection Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor will be published by Salmon Poetry in Spring 2017. She…
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‘Entering The Mare’ and other poems by Katie Donovan
Entering the Mare (The inauguration of an Irish chieftain, as observed by Gerald of Wales in the 12th century) She stamps and shivers, her white coat vainly shrugging, as the would-be chieftain plunges in, burying deep his puny, acrid man’s seed, between her fragrant haunches. The Goddess lives in her fine rearing head,…
Chris Murray 