Irish Poetry

I have a dream ~ It is Sunday and I have just returned from a lesbian orgy in a convent, purely as an artist you understand; filming documen...

Dear Reader If this is your first time on this site, welcome, and please, do not think the poetry below is all I am about. The example her...

There's been quite a bit going on here Dear Reader. I got a bashing on Monday two weeks back, in the early hours of the morning. Just th...

Yo ho ho nipple me not whats Dear Reader coz da word on the scene here in Liffey land is that an art gallery has just opened at the very bot...

"Style is a function of theme Style is not imposed on subject matter But arises from it Style is truth to thought." &nbsp&...

On Sunday last, in my capacity as a match steward checking tickets at a gate inside the inside the ground, I attended the Munster versus Lei...

The last two poets I witnessed at Poetry Ireland's Damar Hall basement space in Stephen's Green, were Fergus Allen, and Canada's...

Her face of flat black leather cap and spectacles Sally, a willowy Miami Uni poetess in V neck sweater, being . perfectly average - a tinge ...

Imagine a beer spokes-model with an attraction-to-disaster IQ of 180 has a really dedicated energy he expends on inventing a purpose for bei...

The head of UK poetry publishing house Carcanet is Michael Schmidt, professor of poetry at Glasgow University and a man with a huge knowled...

The tin long since emptied of chocolate swung squeaking in rusty protest from his son's hand who ran on ahead, scattering crabs among fl...

Over the last few weeks I have been dreaming in language. Depending on what I have been writing before I go to sleep, it can be prose, poetr...

One of the registers in my vocal repetoire is Scalljah, who morphed out of Sloppy Bob. Sloppy Bob is a comedy poet who came to me after I wr...

A couple of nights ago I read the autobiography of Albert Pierrepoint, who was the UK's most prolific executioner. His total hangings nu...

St Patricks day was on Friday, and I wrote a piece then which I couldn't post until now. I have been unable to get online since Friday d...

Dear Reader If you typed Irish Poetry into msn and ended up here, stop a while and have a leisurely read. If you have any questions on poet...

I went to Damar Hall last night to listen to seven poets launch chapbooks. Belfast's Lapwing Press was the publisher who brought an ecle...

Yesterday's first post related a dream I had which I think may have been a predictive one, precursing the next stage of my writerly deve...

The post immediately below this one is a bit heavy going for the more casual reader, so I thought I'd top it with a lite post and poem. ...

About a week ago a lucid snippet of dream caused me to suddenly awake from my slumbers and I have been puzzling its significance since then,...