Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Poetry is painting using words

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Poets and painters are chips off the same block, here’s a selection of quotations that demonstrates it. "Painting was called si...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Remembering

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A lot has been written on the subject of the Irish famine; most of what’s needed to be said has been said. However, when I found myself ...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Where education fails

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I am very doubtful about the value of much of what we accept as education. In science, for example, too much deadening information, not en...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

from "Above Ground Below Ground"

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Gull I fly, spark from an anvil; cormorant standing, sopping rag. Goat leaps, flame flaring; horse exhales piston jets of steam. ...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Dead End

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Pared down to tongues and mouths;   mouth to mouth, tongue to tongue, we are one.   At orgasm,   pared down to ton...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

"Black Men Ski"

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“Some kids I’ll describe as friends   say I am race-obsessed.    The luxury of your opinion   shows that you are blessed.”   - Stew S in...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Music is a stream

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Music is a stream whose fingers, knuckling over boulders, send droplets trickling into crevices, tinkling; gurgles bass notes in h...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Dylan Thomas Reads A Child's Christmas in Wales

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  A beautiful reading by Dylan Thomas; and then listen to him reading my favourite poem, Fern Hill; (follow the link below).  A Chil...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Yesterday

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Almost a year to the day since I visited Pearse Hutchinson in St James Hospital and found him in great form. He talked  about a nurse he met...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

In Rathmines

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A group of students from the Higher National Diploma in Media (Journalism)in Rathmines College are working on a new website to bring togethe...

Paradise Lost in Trinity College Dublin

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Reminding you of Paradise Lost read-a-thon, Friday 14th December 2012, starting at 10 a.m. in the GMB, Trinity College and re-locating ...
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Mashed Up Yeats

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I have no doubt that Yeats was the greatest poet writing in the twentieth century. He had the complete poet’s palette. I thought it might ...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

The Start of It

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               This is the start of it: the clay palm hitting the face, bags packed, colours away; all my flares quenching into t...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Digging Potatoes

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This first year, the potato plants in the water-logged soil beneath the mountains made a bedraggled- looking crop. They went in late, so...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

You Chose This

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No one lives with the moon, no one could; the moon is beautiful, too beautiful; a sentence to loneliness.   Night after night,...