Friday, August 29, 2014

When all the world was young

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             Oh for the days of childhood, when the sun was always in the sky, ice-creams came in wafers, we skated on the pond all winter...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Live Recording of Day-long Reading of 'Paradise Lost', Trinity College Dublin, 2012

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”   Here is the link to the live reading of Jo...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Powerful Imagery

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    Francis Bacon’s Head VI can quickly inspire a poem. The claustrophobia within that cage, the tassel that suggests he has been...
Monday, August 18, 2014

The Wind Claps The Slates.

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    The wind claps the slates; all night they are hooves running berserk, all night the wind is inciting them; all night. ...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Following Rousseau

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    I'm not sure this does follow Rousseau, but the idea came from his painting 'The Sleeping Gypsy', it's a revise...
Friday, August 8, 2014

November Leaf

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  That maple leaf had all the colours I saw in you, a pronouncement hung on a web of veins. I found it, a star in the debris...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

A Memory of My Father

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Shaft of Sunlight   Sunlight, reflected off a million specks of dust, fed his face with lines and grace.   Soft light pa...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Inheriting the land

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The sadness of emigration is particularly marked at this time of year. An air of  emptiness settles on old country farmhouses; they stand un...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

What the artist wishes

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1. At each beginning, that same challenge:   to crack perfection; a kidney stone that aches in the pit of your brain.   ...

Roscommon Writing Award

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  Gerry Boland has emailed me with news of The NEW ROSCOMMON WRITING AWARD 2014 which will be awarded for works in English, on any t...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Poetry Workshop at the Boyle Arts Festival

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I'm looking forward to giving a poetry workshop this Saturday at 2.30pm in the Boyle Enterprise Centre and admission is a paltry €5. It...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Images from Clare

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We were in Miltown Malbay for the Willie Clancy. In the afternoons, we went walking. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, but I did ha...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

In The Home

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  Sitting by her bed, among those sobbing, groaning women, in a room claustrophobic with impending death, her spirit shrivelled ...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Messi Teleportation

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It appears to be the case that Lionel Messi can teleport, but it's not quite instantaneous; in fact it takes 3 seconds. This ability h...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

for madmen

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      How enormous are we! How far our reach!  How endless our creativity! (Sometimes it comes as a surprise that the great are st...
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