Tag: Visual Arts

  • Bird poems from Poethead

    Preamble to  The Valley by  Kerry Hardie ‘The first valley is the Valley of the Quest, the second the Valley of Love the third is the Valley of Understanding the fourth is the Valley of Independence and Detachment the fifth of Pure Unity the sixth is the Valley of Astonishment and the seventh is the Valley…

  • Affixing the Imprimatur, queer art and blasphemy in Cork.

    Affixing the Imprimatur, queer art and blasphemy in Cork.

    Wherein the definition of art and who gets the imprimatur?   I find myself at a loss regarding how the problem of blasphemy is being discussed in Cork. There has been no art-historical analysis of queer art, there has been little media reference to the issue of the 2006-2009 Defamation Bill, and discussion on one political site…

  • She Grows Her Own Standing, by Anne Seagrave

  • “Forms ; A Sampler” by Chris Allen

    Forms; A Sampler for C.M What would they have said had you heard the whisper slip ravenous up the avenue on fat and awkward dialect towards the parlour comfort of an army of the wizened faces of their mother, who settled in her embroideries internalising the potential of an inclusive act, to fuse the eschatological…