Tag: Literature

  • Protected: Poethead Links and Irish Imprints ; reacting to savage cut-backs by The Fianna Fáil and Green Parties.

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  • “Wraiths III, White Nights” by Seamus Heaney.

    Wraiths III.  White Nights   Furrow-plodders in spats and bright-clasped brogues Are cradling bags and hoisting beribboned drones As their skilled neck-pullers’ fingers force the chanters   And the whole band starts rehearsing Its stupendous, swaggering march Inside the hall. Meanwhile   One twilight field and summer hedge away We wait for the learner who…

  • ‘ Rare and Interesting Books’ in Westport , Co Mayo.

    EDIT : 13/12/2010 : John Hurst died last night . Rest in Peace. As always a visit to John Hurst’s Interesting books shop is a delight, a real treasure-trove, indeed, I have spoken of the shop before now. I thought to add a picture of the frontage (with the suit of armour) and though it cannot be seen…

  • ‘In the Storm of Roses’ by Ingeborg Bachmann.

    In the Storm of Roses   Wherever we turn in the storm of roses, the night is lit up by thorns, and the thunder of leaves, once so quiet within the bushes, rumbling at our heels.   Source: In the Storm of Roses (translator unknown)  by Ingeborg Bachmann.  

  • ‘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…

  • “The Octogenarian” By Edith Sitwell (Reblog)

    Re-blogging this poem, I think its about time there was a bit more Edith Sitwell on the site. it was transcribed from *Facade*, so I have to find my notes to add in the Publication date etcetera. ‘The Octogenarian Leaned from his window, To the Valerian Growing below Said, ‘My Nightcap is the only gap in…

  • Dublin Writers Festival 2010.

    There follow two links to the Dublin Writers Festival 2010. Dublin Writers Festival Homepage. The National Womens Council of Ireland and the Dublin Writers Festival.

  • ‘No Earthly Estate’, Patrick Kavanagh

    I am recommending, today a book called  No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh, an Anthology, ed Tom Stack, Columba Press 2004. Excerpted , ‘No Earthly Estate , Kavanagh, Colum and Strong’ (December 2010) . ‘The wordsmiths mentioned above , Kavanagh, Strong, and Colum are but a tiny example of the triumph of art and literature against what amounts to…

  • Two poems by Liliana Ursu.

    Two poems by Liliana Ursu.

    Poem with a Griffin, a Pike and Peacocks. I am reading a poem while it rains. The day blinks through windows guarded by a griffin; its talons flex, its tail switches.   Do you remember those summer showers high in the mountains? The dull pop of a toadstool beneath your bare foot in the dew-covered…

  • Exilic Conditions

    I am glad I went onto the Nomadics Site [blogroll- P Joris blog] because in many ways it has been something that resonates with some of my own themes. I had put down a folder (in exasperation) four years ago based in the conditions of exile and loss. When I went into read the ethnopoetics site and…