I am sticking my neck out to declare: Micheal O’Siadhail’s book-length poem, The Five Quintets, is the most important work of English-language literature that has been…
Posts tagged as “2018September”
Seemingly out-manoeuvred by more experienced, and ruthless, political ‘partners’, the Five Star Movement (M5S) has entered a crucial phase after forming a coalition government with…
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Tower of Song’ is a short history, and valedictory, to the tradition of songwriting, fusing aphorisms and personal reflections on failure with nostalgia…
The Cassandra Voices musician of the month for September, Louise O’Connor, explores what makes a trad session so special. I recently attended a large music…
A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person’s eyes he sees his own image,…
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an unqualified success. While the number of goals scored per game was the same as four years previously in…
It is difficult to speak of abstract forces without personalising them, or investing them, magically, with consciousness and will. When we (by this I mean…
Studies show that if you get married and then divorce, your happiness will dip below what it was before you married. One might conclude that…
We have not slain our enemy, the cancer cell, or figuratively torn the limbs from his body … In our adventures we have only seen…
I am writing this account for the sake of those who follow. As victims of serious negligence by the state bureaucracy, my family and I…
Storrington Place of storks and green- clad chalk. Are the Gypsies still perched on ‘The Warren’? Camargue Flamingo heaven, white horses, black madonna. Heart’s…
A cormorant dives to feed, then perches, its wings spread to dry. There are fish, there is a break in the clouds. A freighter embarks,…
The beach is one of the few places you’re going to see New Yorkers immobile, supine, sleeping in the sun … everyone piles onto…
The following is a short retelling and interpretation of a number of Irish sagas, including two, ‘The Second Battle of Moytura’ and ‘The Wooing of…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), U.S. President between 1933 and 1945, was born to enormous privilege. He came from one of the most aristocratic families in…
The Audacity of a Third Party Candidate
The problem with writing about the U.S. Democratic Party, whether analytically, historically, or even as a matter of praxis, is that it has all been…