I do not often recommend newspaper articles on Irish poetry, but I am making an exception in the case of The Examiner’s review of Eavan Boland’s latest book New and Selected Poems Eavan Boland (Carcanet). J P O’Malley offers an extensive review, some illuminating video links, and a preview of his upcoming interview with Boland…
Warning Shots When you live on the edge of an ocean, you cannot pretend you did not see it coming. The leaves are still, birds chatter, the sea is a sheet of steel. But out west where last night the sun left a sky illumined like stained glass dirt heaps up,…
Originally posted on Poetry & Being: Tom D'Evelyn's Blog:
This poem by Christine Murray is more than a text. I have been wanting to say something about it; today, having spent some time with Sinead Morrissey’s “Yard Poem” from the acclaimed Parallax (2013), I have a focus. “Yard Poem” is a very well-written,…
Adagio for Strings My heart that soared and climbed To other realms of fantasy That longs to find the answers To everything To dream those endless dreams To drift in waves of oceans Of oneness complete And really know In pools of beautiful thought Transport my soul Where heaven will be And…
Originally posted on Poetry & Being: Tom D'Evelyn's Blog:
At her website “Poethead” Christine E. Murray provides the reader with surprises from well known and less well known poets. Murray, herself an outstanding poet, has remarkable taste. She picks poems that help us see poetry as embedded in reality, in “material” reality, poems…
