The Second Wife from: The Wooing of Etain The poems in this series concentrate on the part of the legend: The Wooing of Etain, where Midir brings Etain, his new wife, home and she meets his first wife, Fuamnach. Consumed with jealousy, Fuamnach conspires against her beautiful rival. She turns her into a pool of … Continue reading
‘Love, Politics, Murder! A sell out success!’ Continue reading
The Rooney prize is awarded for a body of work by a young Irish writer that shows exceptional promise. Continue reading
I can tune in to the true note
in a creature heart. Continue reading
I love the beauty of those words. Continue reading
For isn’t everything, if looked at closely,
a little off key: lovers and dancers
only a step out, a step away . Continue reading
One puts the book down, numb beyond weeping, for it goes well beyond the romance of being a soldier-poet ‘in the tradition of Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon’…. Continue reading
A Poem by Edward Reilly Brennan was put to rest in a northern suburbs cemetery. An apt enough place, for, as James has it, we’re all suburbanites When it comes to the literary world, there being no city Where writers type up copy in this lumbering language Other than London or New York, where journals can … Continue reading
Brionglóid Bhí an chearc uisce anseo, an foitheach is an corp ar a shuaimhneas ar snámh ag breathnú suas ar áilleacht éigin a lámh in airde aige d’fhonn toradh a stoitheadh i ngéaga an aeir: ag imeacht dó le sruth d’fhás bláth ina lámh a ndearnadh éan de (níor aithin mé é, bheadh orm a … Continue reading
Faust’s biography of Louis MacNeice clearly illustrates the constraints placed on him and his generation by Britain’s continuing aversion to most things European, save the delights of Paris… Continue reading
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