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Category Archives: Poetry

The Mystery and Ambivalence of Attachment: Seamus Heaney’s Clearances

May 29, 2015

Earlier this year, RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster ran a competition to find the nation’s best-loved poem of the last 100 …

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Working Mum Haiku

October 8, 2014

Working Mum Haiku Fluff shirks in corners. Not one hundred per cent mum Drains the coffee cup. Baby grips a …

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Two Paths, Solstice.

December 23, 2013

Originally posted on simonhlilly:
WHITE SUN A white sun Drags low its cloak Of long shadows. The whispered song is…

Irish Poem of the Week: The Mayo Tao by Derek Mahon

December 7, 2013

The Mayo Tao I have abandoned the dream kitchens for a low fire and a prescriptive literature of the spirit; …

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Poem of the Week: The Strand by Louis MacNeice

November 13, 2013

I’ve been so busy and my Irish Poem of the Week page has been the victim of my neglect. I …

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In a Desert Garden

September 19, 2013

The day after you planted the trees A desert storm swept in. The biggest took the brunt, Doubling over, branches …

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Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013

August 30, 2013

It’s been one of those weeks when I’ve felt something was about to happen, something which would impact on me …

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Lost in Translation

June 27, 2013

Some things are definitely lost in translation. You only have to listen to my husband tell an Egyptian joke in …

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A Hankering for Haiku

May 29, 2013

Yesterday, I had a hankering for haiku. Some days you just can’t fit in enough reading – from the newspaper …

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