Poetry – Kathleen Scott Goldingay
The Lamps of the Virgins from Bearers of the Broken Vessel At dawn, weaving through…
Browsing: Literature
The Continuing Story of Óglaigh na hÉireann
The Continuing Story of Óglaigh na hÉireann All around the snot-nosed parishes of Ireland small…
Poetry – Brendan McCormack
omeros is unforgiveable they come and they go fleeting wet bullets my bed has left…
Synapse Fire
One of the main things I characterize my misspent youth by, is a knack for…
Poetry – Lynn Caldwell (with recording)
Holding Vellum to the Light The pages of the city unfold its secrets like holding…
Heart of the City
On the LUAS, she counts thirty cranes spiking the skyline. She hasn’t seen this many…
Anarchy Booked
A poetaster’s tribute to Geoffrey Hill’s The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (2019).…
Poem written in old age
Poem written in old age The light that streams across the universe Brings evidence of…
ACME
The Jehovah’s Witnesses were driving me crazy with their too-polite knocks and damnation pamphlets. Maybe…
Nimbus At the Green Border
Cyprus, 1965 The lads of the 42nd Infantry Battalion sat slumped on the Land Rover’s…
Poetry Recording – Paul Curran
Try mph To Payney, Tinpan, JJ, Tom P., Tom C., Col, Ry, Peewee I know…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
Advisory Epistle From Literature Quangocrat after Alexander Pope About my person, I at all times…
Poetry in 2020: ‘Dream and so create’
At the end of 2019, I wrote: In these times it is perhaps inevitable that…
Garden of Forgetting
Back in the 1990s, you may not believe this, even if you actually lived through…
Poetry – Out Walking
Sammy Jay, 30, grew up in Oxford and in Ireland by the sea. He…
Poetry – Daniel Wade
Rooftop Blues I could go for a quick smoke on the roof, the steel vent…
SEVEN VIVID UNINTERRUPTED DAYS
Translation By Sally McCorry January 1st The first of January is always…
The November Events
What is it they say about going bankrupt? Slowly at first, and then all at…
Poetry – Mark Burrows
The Resistance I never knew what they really felt how they survived the one world…
The Andersons
The cacophony of the city took on a new chorus when the construction of a…