Tag: Visual Arts
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‘tree is real silver’ published Poetry Ireland Review (N°138)
Tree is real silver I. Birds tremble there alighting — (lighting) its stained glass recedes and within each bright ening light ening shape the song of a bird embeds a garnet— Each red-feathered song pewtering silver -ground on lazuli II. I see their (a) -lighting. They leaf the tree in the absence of bud,…
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“Time” by Fidel Hogan Walsh and Julie Corcoran
2020, Memories Blinded in a winter’s dread no prophet foresaw. Spring’s new life erupted into a chaos of fear. Desolation replaced the warmth of a hug. Children banished from our everyday lives! Ahh, the blessings — a swift journey home to the unexpected happiness under one roof. Chatter, laughter — a family enduring dark days…
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Making ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’ by Salma Ahmad Caller
Notes on Salma Ahmad Caller’s process for the making of ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’. The Den of Sibyl Wren is my response to Chris Murray’s A Hierarchy of Halls published by Smithereens Press It is my response to words Chris wrote about how she feels about this poem, and what she sees in her…
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Patterns of Sensation – the bodies of dolls by Salma Caller
Silk Velvet Purse Doll Tiny invisible stitches hold rivets that hold rivulets Of silk ending in the darkness Where dreaming continues The sleeping and dreaming of her invisible body Silk Velvet Purse Doll A mille-feuille A body of a thousand layers A thousand gauze tissues A thousand substances Concealing a darkened chamber Entombing A heavy…
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“The Infinite Body of Sensation”: Visual poetry by Salma Caller
Sound is a shell Sound is a shell An ear Curves of sound Vibrating and condensing air Echoes in a curved space An ocean in the shell of sound Pearls Things that stand in for other things The Witches Pouches Bags of velvet black Nets entangling objects Bones of birds The insides of shells Spells…
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Sequences — (After Francis Bacon) by Michael McAloran
Sequences — (After Francis Bacon) 2…meat unto collapse/ stead lapse/ the lung’s abort in headless barrage the head is/ traces the/ meat’s sarcophagus is the light surrounding/ the forms that bind the subject-object/being in this from onset’s claim/ the stripping down of/ in gradual of irreversible/ meat does not climb it cannot/ it/ blind…
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‘The House of Altogether Nothing’ & Other poems by Jan Sand
The House of Altogether Nothing The countryside in which it stands Is broken with large jagged rocks. Its trees are dark, from northern lands, Whose branches scratch the sky; boney bough knocks One against the other. Cold winds finger through Odd strands of captured human hair, Torn newspaper strips look as if they grew Amongst…
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Poetry : Cut Neck by Zarina Zabrisky
CUT NECK HE (standing with a razor in one hand, a photograph in the other) This neck connects Her head to her body. Her true self To the garden of her delight I should have married A real woman A woman Who acts like a wife Whose head belongs to me Just like…
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The Cézannization of what wasn’t left, an excerpt from ‘Machinations’
untitled image , oil on canvas by © Michael McAloran 2003 histology slice 3 [ a tissue cloth so delicately coloured in mauves and purples indigo and ivory cells become tissue whereas this isn’t at all the case all is one in febrile disequilibrium not excluding momentary states of euphoria and relative equilibrium the macabre beauty…
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My submission to the Copyright Review Committee 2012.
‘The Arts and the Public Domain; Arts Practice as Culturally Necessary.’ The Arts and the Public Domain. Ireland requires not alone a statutory organisation, such as a copyright council, it requires also a non-governmental centre for social-media where artists and developers can discuss and decide manifestos which will protect their original works and others’ rights to…
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