Irish Poetry

We are all stars, but some of us are gazing in the gutter - ha ha ha. Are we not clever dearest fops, in a fallen age of awfully logical ang...

This is a recording of me (Desmond Swords) made in Damar Hall, July 2006, when I was part of that years Poetry Ireland Introductions Series,...

A traveller on the love-bus, fresh and high from reading Kristeva, Perloff and A Wild Salience by Rae Armantrout, told me of a theory which ...

This is an eight minute review of Bush's eight years, by Karl Olbermann on msnbc, whose name may be Keith, I am reliably informed by thr...

A supernatural sky sheathing stone beneath time gods grant within those of grace embeds a sign in the spiritual language of spoken love and ...

This date got me thinking of identity. The base datum made when rooting first our mind into place and culture. The signs we follow and/or co...

Yesterday and today, when cycling up Dame Street to Lord Edward Street, I saw an elderly man I used to live in the next room to, when I was...

Arghhhh!!!!! mmmmnn... yummmy yummy yummy.. lurrvve, darlink darlink darlink, squiffy super dooper... oh my god oh my god oh my god !! arghh...

Ireland 3 - Sweeden 0 1 Mar 2006 ... Steve Staunton the saviour of Irish soccer, starts his reign in charge of the Republic with an impres...

Hallelujah, wow ! wow ! Hallelujah, Wow ! Wow ! . everthing goan be different after we die we aint goan be hungry, aint goan be pain aint go...

There is an article in today's NY Times by Adam Nagourney: The '08 Race: A Sea Change for Politics as We Know It - who speaks how t...

Hep cat Jack and Al in Vegas, two high balls no hookers, Greg and Ginsey at it like bonobo pygmy chimps with a couple of dwarfs purchased in...

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In the warm womb of August a bold trace drew within the night a self-sleight of tongue, by silence behoven to what force surrenders a flat p...

The talk at the latter part of this week, has been about the removal of a poem by an education examining board of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy ...

Now I’ve experienced McCain's daughter at her blogette and seen the photos of the lovely tee shirts, simple designer duds and gee, real...

During the final weeks of university four years ago, i purchased a video camera after seeing a show at the National Student Drama Festival i...

Have a gander at a drunk in a shopping trolley being pushed home by two salt of the earth Clondalkin Dubs, filmed by a guard with his collea...

Thursday 28 August 23.52 Hi M. No probs if this is not the sort of caper appropriate for yr page, but we have just got a new computer and th...

Please turn the volume right up to hear the sound on the video below. It was made in the final days of my time at Edge Hill College (now uni...