Wednesday, October 26, 2016

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Farmland in Meath Hill of Tara                                                                                                  ...
Friday, October 21, 2016

3 poems: audio

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Climb

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    As I watched, a mother and child climbed the steep summit of Croagh Patrick; stopping, starting, stopping, starting. Whil...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

He Fishes With Cormorants.

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An idea from a beautiful documentary I saw many years  ago: ' He Dances for his Cormorants'. He fishes with C...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Remembering Pearse Hutchinson

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No Detail Too Small  No detail too small, you balanced it on your pen. Watchmaker with magnified eye, you admired the exquisi...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Door hanging from its hinges,

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breakfast things on the table, newspapers neat in a corner, armchair facing the television. In the bedroom, make-up bottles,...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Phonecall

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One afternoon, long after, I call her. I imagine the phone’s ring-tone streaming through the air of her sitting room; above...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Dog

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A dog built around his snarling teeth    demonstrates human instincts when I cross his ground. Glass stare, no, spikes from his...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

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Final Breath in memory of Pearse Hutchinson In that last moment your breath halted in your mouth; the  air teetered on your ton...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Not normal

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Outsider I was born in a tree. Before words rustled, thoughts rustled. Caught, netted in November;  the leaves fallen...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Where The Poetry Comes From

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Fathomless blue; Blue sky. Two swallows proclaiming it Are extravagant Dancers in an empty ballroom. A church bell chim...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Artur Widak Exhibition in Rathmines College's Culture Night Programme

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Artur Widak  is a Polish photojournalist, currently based in Dublin. His striking images have been highly acclaimed and published intern...
Friday, September 9, 2016

The Tide's High Blood Mark

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                        (Before The Firing Squad) Ready                         The sun's tide             is licking...
Monday, September 5, 2016

A Culture Night Miscellany in Rathmines

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I'm really looking forward to joining  Kevin Hora, Maggie Breheny and Anne Marie McGowan for A Culture Night Miscellany of poetry, mus...

Do we torture what we don't like the look of ?

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Marine. Prostrate on the beach, a slop of sea pulse, a glob black as chewed tobacco fallen from the lip. My mother sa...