The Unusual Suspects – Rhymers Club and Rubberbandits Rock Uisneach
Uisneach was quite an experience, and the crowd who we feared may have been hostile to our traditional poetry styles, were instead …
Men in the Company of Women – Valentines Day
“Men in the Company of Women” is a men’s anthology of love poetry written for the women in their lives, or …
A Right Wingers Modest Proposal for the Betterment of Irish Society
Kill your children, working classes, we don’t want you on the dole Kill your children, their only fetus’s, only tissue, are not …
Tullamore Rhymers at Open Heart House
The organizer and MC kicks off the event.Yesterday, I had the privilege of giving one poem as a contribution to an arts …
Nordic Poetry Readings at the Irish Writers Centre
For once, went to an event where I shut up and just listened. It was in the Irish Writers Centre in Parnell …
Poets Express: A Bar, and Bawdy Bards, Outside Bantry!
As expected, Poets Express was a success, but with a different crowd than anticipated. Being held in a bar, maybe it is …
The Pale Presents: Chaotic, late, intimate and excellent!
Dublins Christchurch area is as famous for its bars as its churches, and the Pale bar is a must visit for anyone …
Discovering the writings if Betjeman, and the argument over Muses in Poetry
I have recently come across the work of the writer John Betjeman, who heretofor I had only known for his political activities, …