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Poetry Day 2016 | Revolution: Grandad’s Grave
Today is Poetry Day 2016, when we recognise the contribution of the poetic arts to our history and culture. This year, in keeping with the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the theme is Revolution. To celebrate Headstuff are sharing…
Poetry Day 2016 | Revolution 1916: Irish Grand National Result, Easter Monday 1916
Today is Poetry Day 2016, when we recognise the contribution of the poetic arts to our history and culture. This year, in keeping with the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the theme is Revolution. To celebrate Headstuff are sharing…
Revolution NOW [15]: The Lure of Love
The Lure of Love
after the painting, The Snake Charmer, Henri Rousseau, 1907
June nights late I am transported
To a moist and primitive land
And in its jungle confronted
By strange tethering.
I am mute and robbed of my voice,
I…
Revolution NOW [14]: Feeling Sexy
Feeling Sexy
Exercise? I only run my mouth. Though sometimes, if feeling adventurous, I’ll also do an alcohol run. Ordered my beach body months ago, and it’s yet to get here; never online shopping again. Can ya pass the fries? What…
Revolution NOW [13]: On the Street Where You Live – Maurice Devitt
On the Street Where You Live
It is one of those late autumn days
when the trees on the street
seem to have nothing to do. They stand
shivering in puddles of leaves, hands
waving to keep warm, bold rustle
of summer now a bald whisper. …
Revolution NOW [12]: The Desert – Siobhan Daffy
The Desert
It is almost one month since I last wrote. With distance things have become clearer. Every surface feels alive under my bare feet; rough cotton, wet grass, flat rocks with crystals embedded. Mornings are chaotic with birdsong…
Revolution NOW [11]: The Uses of Poetry – Michael Farry
The Uses of Poetry
Ammar, ten, is thankful
for The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
whose two volumes (Carcanet, 2010)
kept him warm all last night.
They were precious indeed,
so cold
under the clear sky of the Kurdistan …
Revolution NOW [10]: Not Since We Began
Not Since We Began
While trying not to get my best boots
any wetter and
fording a small impromptu stream
I watched a leaf,
briefly,
fully yellow and caught
within a rain-river.
I remember how
you said it wouldn’t rain
as I was…
Revolution NOW [09]: Vote of No Confidence
Vote of No Confidence
It’s not the manner of your going—
be it in an accident
no one saw happen, not even
the woman driving the car
that hit you; or you slipping
of your own volition
into a lovely hot bath, clutching
a large…
Revolution NOW [08]: Revolution in Progress
Revolution in Progress
The lead wings make us fly
the tethers the tears in our eyes,
shine, bring the bier,
the good days are back, the good days
are here comes Stalin, there goes Ho Chi Minh,
Ian Dury wouldn’t know the horrible…