Irish Poetry

Let me twist you the tale of Finouola, an amatuer rhyme-smith and TV hack who attempted to pull a fast one by having a gas time at the expen...

It's another hot one today. Probably going to be a record summer here, as it is very unusual to get it so sunny for such a prolonged spe...

The poetry has been flowing thick and fast, as I have been a very busy bore of late, witnessing and reading the word. As I type I am listeni...

Dear word lovers Monster Truck Art Gallery corner Francis Street/Coomb opposite St Patricks Cathedral Dublin 8 city centre is now hosting ...

This Thursday 6 July from 8.30pm - Guest Poet and Open Floor@ Monster Truck Art Gallery bottom of Francis Street opposite St Patricks Cathed...

I have been a frequent audience member over the past few weeks, regularly injecting myself with a maximum dose of poetry, like a singing sup...

Although the night shelter I call home does not allow pets, or visitors of any description, which makes it as close as you get to the old ba...

DA WORD Dawn's an advert for sunrise, copy of will, mind pour, tame of process and nature; her show will drain liquid man for disposable...

The Auraicept Na N-eces , is in the Book of Ballymote, a 15C Irish Manuscript. This trieste was translated by George Calder in 1917 or so an...

What do you want? Why are you here? Do you know about Ogham? The ancient writing in Ireland prior to the written language being established ...

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...