SUVs: A Symbol of Our Demise
This article has been gestating for some time. I must admit to a long-standing loathing…
Author Peter O'Neill
Peter O'Neill
Peter O’Neill is the author of five collections of poetry. The Exquisite Cadaver is taken from The Enemy – Transversions from Charles Baudelaire ( Lapwing, 2015). His sixth collection of poetry, a bilingual collection translated into French by Yan Kouton, Henry Street Arcade, is to be published by Éditions du Pont de l’Europe and will be launched on the 8th April, 2021, as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Charles Baudelaire which will be hosted by the Alliance Francaise in Dublin.
Poem: Hope in Despair
Hope in Despair I have always loved museums, no doubt having a kind of prophetic…
Poetry: Commuting with Baudelaire
Commuting with Baudelaire We are living in a time when there are no gentlemen. So,…
Fragment Number 64
It was Saturday morning. Maher was lying in bed. He had just woken up. It…
Open Mics or Open Micks?
I immediately twitch with an almost intolerable discomfort when I hear the words freedom and…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
The Bridge After Meryon Bridge of Be-ing, all arches mirrrored upon The river running –…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Irish Rail Dublin, that old whore, with her piss -stained pavements Abruptly transforms into a…
The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot
The prize painting in the National Gallery of Ireland is, without a doubt, Caravaggio’s depiction…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Poems in the Manner of the Devil After Alexandar Ristović (1933-1994) If you can’t chew…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Spring For Lois P. Jones I The gentle discord of rainfall, its alternating static…
Baudelaire as Phenomenologist
Three Poems by Charles Baudelaire IV – L’ALBATROS Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’equipage Prennent…
Love and Literature in Numbers
Whenever I think about Literature I think about Love. Both are written with big Ls.…
Reviving Martin Heidegger’s Dasein – Be-ing
Before a recent online poetry reading I was invited to meet with other international participants.…
Fiction: Train Station
Awarded one of the Tidiest Towns in the nation, the place was profoundly inept and…
Fleeing Father
If stylistically Francesca Banciu’s latest novel translated into English Fleeing Father (Vatherflucht) is a much…
Restoring Wild Literature
L’histoire naturelle, ce n’est rien autre que la nomination du visible. Michel Foucault – Les…
L’Homme et … la Merde!
For the purpose of perspective, I should like to carry out a short comparative study…
Wonder Woman: The Baudelairean Ideal
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) reshaped the trajectory of modern literature. In acknowledgement T.S. Eliot famously called…
Love Denied: Baudelaire’s Une Charogne
Une Charogne (1859) is among the most important poems of the 19th century, containing all…