Thursday, October 23, 2008

Sydney Bernard Smith

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I was sorry to hear that Sydney Bernard Smith died a fortnight ago, he did me a great service. He published some very early poems of mine in...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

How We Fell

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Glen Colquhoun’s most recent collection, How we fell: A Love Story (Steele Roberts, 2006),is the beautiful and evocative telling of how the ...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Panda Sneeze

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Not poetry in the usual sense but I got a great laugh when I was shown this today. So thanks to jimvwmoss for posting this on YouTube
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Rain and Phone Scams

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Today is WET. The world is full of running water and stiffling greyness; as Leo Sayer says it’s raining in my heart. It started with a night...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Favourite Poems and Poets Online

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What a wonderful thing the internet is. My favourite poem is Fern Hill; I search and find Thanks to CSteierNKU for posting this on YouTube...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Lucky Thirteen

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One of the best pieces of news for Irish poetry this year is the return of Force 10; Issue 13 is out now. In the past I always enjoyed its m...
Monday, September 22, 2008

All -Ireland Poetry Day

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How do I know I need to mix more? When just about every poet I’ve ever heard of has a gig but myself. And that’s close enough the case on th...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Needing Something Different

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I look along my poetry collection needing something I can’t quite define in the same way one sometimes has a desire for a taste: something d...
Friday, September 5, 2008

Love

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Recently I’ve been thinking of the love poems I won’t be writing. But I do find my ‘would be’ words in the writings of others. When it comes...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Dublin to Dysert O'Dea

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I was looking through the O’Dea Clan guestbook and came across an entry asking for tips on how to maximise the experience of a trip to Dubli...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Fish Stone Water

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Holy wells have an atmosphere about them that is unique. They are portals into another place: ancient, otherworldly, magical, serene. They a...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

“Rachel Giese The Donegal Pictures”

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Rachel Brown (formerly Rachel Giese) published “Rachel Giese The Donegal Pictures” in 1987. I got the ideas for some for some of my poems br...
Friday, August 1, 2008

Yeats Exhibition

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If you’ve not been to the Yeats Exhibition in the National Library, put it into the diary; it’s excellent. But isn’t it time the capital off...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Jean-Philippe Goude

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I went searching for Jean-Philippe Goude who is credited with the music on the Bosch animation below. It was worth it, check out his website...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Bosch Animation

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If you are a Bosch fan there are some nice compilations of his work on Youtube. You might also search for Bosch animations while you're...