Last Saturday saw the culmination of months of hard work come to fruition for the UCC Simon Society and many of Cork’s most esteemed poets, spoken word artists, rappers and musicians. Poems For The Homeless, an initiative of UCC Simon Society’s chairperson, Étáin Collins, local artists Stanley Notte and Ciarán MacCartain and myself, Matthew Moynihan,…
“There are three types of Limericks: limericks to be told when ladies are present; limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present; and LIMERICKS.” – Don Marquis. Irish literature remains today to be one of the richest, most beautiful genres within the English-speaking world. Ireland is famous for its poets: Heaney,…
I cannot flood the grains of this dead tree with the same mastery you use to create Sapphics, My trunk left sapless, dull, and flaking, Dry clichés chalk my otherwise flowing casual and lyrical stiffness hovers over me, dead, hanging, Creaking hand forces over unrespiring skin, Forever in search of the elbow angel, Vibrancy paints…