Tag: the moth

  • “A Gradual Eden” and other poems by Audrey Molloy

    A Gradual Eden After the lava had cooled, hardened like a carapace over the fresh-earth graves of our marriages, nothing happened for a while. Sure, you and I still talked all night, once dared to walk arm-in-arm like a real couple to the Vietnamese restaurant with the string-bead curtain and napkins folded into swans. I…

  • Poems from ‘We’ll Sing Blackbird’ by Rebecca O’Connor

    Poems from ‘We’ll Sing Blackbird’ by Rebecca O’Connor

    Domestic Bliss I place a jug of lavender on the table to mask the smell of mould from under the fridge   while you draw nails to hammer with your fist. Then I draw a hammer, and watch   as you try to lift it from the page. by day it’s Mr Men, Mad Men,…

  • 2011 poetry news, and online information for poets.

    Given that the Irish Times Books of the Year did not make mention of poetry books for 2011, I thought to add some links to Irish poetry  presses and imprints for those readers of poetry who are not catered for in the list-system. I have to say that I do not think of such ephemera…