Fighting Talk
The power drips from the open wounds. The big guns lie silent, resting for the next time. The phantom stalks the air, peering Into the muzzles, bathing in their Dominion,…
Tag: poetry
“The most prosaic man becomes a poem when you stand by his grave at his funeral and think of him.”
I came across the above quote from Thomas Hardy’s notebooks via the latest post on Stephen Pentz’s blog First Known When Lost Pentz highlights a poem by F T Prince…
“Be Still”, Agnes Hunt RHSM – poem in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford.
I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…
“The knowledge of a raven’s head” – Celtic language T-Shirts from Mireog, Ring, Waterford
I recently came across Mireog, a company based in Ring, Co Waterford . I first came across their T-shirts but they have a whole range of products. More info on Mireog: Mireog…
Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)
More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in…
Chicken Words and Chicken Music : BBC Radio 3’s “Hey, Little Hen” – featuring Christina Rosetti, Edward Lear, Gary Whitehead, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Vaughan
I used to quite enjoy BBC Radio 3’s “Words and Music” programme on a Sunday evening. Driving through Northern Ireland allowed me to listen to it again after a bit…
“The Faber Popular Reciter”, Introduction by Kingsley Amis
In a letter of 12 August 1977 to Robert Conquest, Kingsley Amis wrote: The Faber Book of Non-Trendy Verse has been easier and is going faster: a careful look through…
Not not not not
I decree that Nothing about me is to be of other existence, My solo self is to be completely sovereign. My boundaries are to be impassable, inviolable. Let me be…
Séamus Sweeney 