A War We Do Not See
Preoccupied with Gaza,a cold war in the Spratley islands where China pushes borders as Rissia is doing in Ukraine, bar on a …
Showers Expected
“Showers expected, but not of rain From a people not from here On a people from other places Who live wild lives …
“What We Leave Behind” — R.I.P. Sarah Lundberg of Seven Towers
Just heard of the passing of the Dublin writer and publisher Sarah Lundberg. She ran the Seven Towers publishing house and ran …
Gaza – What Can We Do?
What can one do, so far away? We see the pictures in the papers, on the internet, on the television, baffled as …
Writing For the Commonest Ear
no knave brought to book Who has won a drunken cheer— The witty man and his joke Aimed at the commonest ear, …
Pen Mightier than the Sword – Towards a Poetry Revolution – World Poetry Movement
Below is a statement from the World Poetry Movement, one of the collectives of which I am a part. Activism through groups …
Only The Birds Fly Free – Mahnaz Mohammadi
After the hunger strikes in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s, the street the British Embassy was on was renamed after him (Bobby …
Not Gaza Or Ukraine, But a Conflict Just as Insane
Not Gaza or Ukraine… but a conflict just as insane, No one counts bodies of fishermen who are drowned When warships prevent …
Just Keep Walking
Sometimes when walking where you are going you do not know Bar that the path is there to be walked One foot …
Willie Rimes Goes to Belfast to Protest at the Parades
Willie Rimes is just back from Belfast, his eyes both black and blue His nose is broken, the whites of his eyes …
Poets, Principles and Personalities – The Biggins of the Poetry World Spouts Forth
The principled “writer” Kevin Higgins, well, he is at it again. Readers of these pages will remember the “principled” campaign he ran …
Well of Life
Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. Fracking pollutes. We drink from the well in a desert Stagnant the water …
In the Shadow of Cairn Hill
Are they true the old tales, that he who slay Queen Maeve, Neath one of these cairns in death enjoys sleep? That …
Give Glory To The Sabbath Day
Give glory for the Sabbath Day Set aside for man to pray And from work for to stay One day a week …
Bonfires Blaze Fueled by Hate
Bonfires blaze, fueled by hate, but the bonfires are an Irish tradition (1) Political maze, each site prate, the other view with …
History of Poetry in Fermoy – Gene Barry and the Fermoy International Poetry Festival
Two years in the running, and following on from many years of voluntary work in the arts, editing reviews, etc, this is …
Fermoy International Poetry Festival 2014 – Gene Barry Defends Festival and Reputation – Decent Poets vs Cute Hoors and the Poetry Cliques – Blog
Gene Barry, of the Blackwater Poets, formerly the Elbow Lane poets, started the Fermoy International Poetry Festival. To which others tagged along, …
Ethics, Official Images, Artists Ego’s and the Funding Issue
Writers often make their living from festival readings, and sales of their books at events. To gain such access to earn such …
Same Bus – New Faces
Changing places, same seats, A smile greets on boarding, no more the girl from Dunnes – Or that man who worked at …
Basket Across the Boyne
Smoke had cleared, blood clotted, breaths gone Flies feasted on the dead Victories armies raged the land Men fled to hills and …