Sharks: from demonization to glorification
Recently I came across Ocearch, a shark tracking project which has produced some amazing videos of Great Whites and other sharks being tagged: One of the interesting shifts in my lifetime…
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“My Life by Water” – a found poem by M. Stone
I greatly enjoyed M Stone’s found poem “My Life By Water”, constructed using… well, you can follow the link to find out – and does it matter? It stands on…
“Machinery” by Robert Wrigley
On what would have been my father’s 87th Birthday this poem by Robert Wrigley seems fitting. It captures something of the tension between the worlds of literary endeavour and the…
#MarianMay “A Mhuire Mhathair”
Interestingly, “A Mhuire Mhathair” is not a traditional Irish hymn, but the result in the 1970s of setting an Irish text to the Maori tune Pokarekare Ana :
#MarianMay , “Ave Maria”, Krzysztof A Janczak
From the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof A Janczak here is a timeless sounding (yet of its time) Ave Maria:
Priére, Erik Satie – performed by Reinbert de Leeuw
A while back I featured Reinbert de Leeuw performing Liszt’s 1880 “Via Crucis”, which seems to me at any rate proto-minimalist. Here from 1893 is the most recognised precursor of…
#MarianMay Ave Maris Stella, Edvard Grieg
Ave Maris Stella – “Hail Star Of The Sea” – is one of the oldest and most influential Marian hymns – with settings from the Middle Ages to Renaissance to…
#AprilCountry, April 29th – “People And Their Problems”, Billy Joe Shaver
“People and their problems are giving me a pain / People and their problems are messing with my brain / I try to help them some but they always stay…
Séamus Sweeney 