your arms around me as in my life’s first hours; Continue reading
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POETRY – Outlaws by Tom Phillips
Homesickness was a wound but our dear children
in time helped us better relate to it all here, Continue reading
Approximately in the Key of C by Tony Curtis
launch of two new titles from Arc Publications Continue reading
A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
WINDHARP. Poems of Ireland since 1916
if this was all we had a thousand years from now, it would be the basis for a sound reconstruction of the political, social and economic life in Ireland in the century since 1916. Continue reading
Poetry
When my Mother wielded her bow
She could make the music ring. Continue reading
Poetry – The Tao of Grass
It is a tune stolen
From the ponies’ prayers. Continue reading
Once Upon a Barstool
What a rarity it is to be seduced by the sound of the human voice and the beauty and rhythm of the spoken word: Continue reading
Poetry
does God not see
our tears falling on the ground
near the stony road Continue reading
War Poetry and Peacekeeping by Michael J Whelan
The exhibition features many poems inspired by events during the poet’s tours of duty as an Irish United Nation’s Peacekeeper Continue reading
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