March 21st, 2006
New Irish Poetry blog: Poetic Licence
Apologies for the sparse and light blogging, work is outweighing everything at the moment. Just wanted to point you in the direction of what might be a first in Irish blogging.
Could Poetic Licence be Ireland’s first dedicated poetry blog? The writer behind it is Lorraine McArdle who contributed some very fine poetry, epigrams and writing to the old Sigla magazine. Delighted to see that her serial featuring the Victorian cad Montgomery Beau Britches has now found a permanent home for him to seduce, beguile and rip as many bodices as he likes.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Are you sure she’s not related to Twenty Major?
She has a poem there which goes …
The mean reds
I’m sick and sore and sad and sour -
My period makes me dark and dour.
Oh Nature’s cruel and nasty stunt
Is what I’d call a bloody c#nt!
March 21st, 2006 at 5:50 pm
We’ll have to ask Twenty - maybe it’s his sister?
March 21st, 2006 at 10:09 pm
There are a few other dedicated poetry blogs - most notable amongst them; Poetry Ireland editor Peter Sirr, http://petersirr.blogspot.com/ Desmond Swords, http://irishpoetry.blogspot.com/ others can be found by visiting here http://www.poetryireland.ie/news/news.asp
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:13 am
Am so glad to see Lorraine back in action. I LOVED Epigrammatically Speaking when it was in Sigla and this particular tribute to Holly Golightly is brilliant!
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:10 am
pb - why is your own blog called poetbloggs? I couldn’t find any poetry on it. Are you a poet-in-waiting?
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Sinead -
I have been published as a poet in several journals in Ireland and the UK over the last few years, but journalism has taken precedence since I started University. Poetbloggs has been my online pseudonym for a long time, I’m very fond of it. I have been avoiding publishing poetry on the blog, instead trying arts/media commentary. Hope you approve,
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Yo
Cocktail Queen of Great Georges Street,
I saw you last night
in my dreams
tastefully sipping Laurent Bollinger
in the snug of the Long Hall.
You were dressed
in an Imitation of Christ
runway cling number
- fragile fawn -
like the colour of well cooked chips
left overnight to burnish and mottle
in a dry April breeze.
Your voice
your demeanor
dynamic
and innate fashion sense
fragrantly exuded the
tartnes of a pungent class
punching well above the weight
of all else gathered there.
And the chatter of travel
caravans, tarmacking
and bare knuckle bouts
momentarily ceased
in the aroma of shadows
and whispers left in the wake
of your passing spoor.
For your eclan and breeding
where the talk of the lounge
long after you left
leaving a tang of the cloud
of a sweet smelling life
as your gift to the dying breed
of old Mayo shovel men
at sup there.
And when I awoke
and the memory of you faded
like footprints
on a tide washed beach
- my dream exposed as purely fancy -
yes
my Cocktail Girl
longing increased
and I gained permission
from the Dr’s to compose
communicate
my thoughts
as part of my ongoing occupational therapy.
So please
come
rescue me from this asylum at St Brendan’s
and lets move into a bedsit
in Crumlin
where we can set up shop
as a comedy couple,
nutter and cut glass go getter
together
setting London astorm
by boozing and getting twisted
locked
and going nightly
on the lash,
gratis, free
all for the sake of the readers.
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Oops, blooper, London should read Dublin Sinead me arl scribblin classy hack act yer. Howz about havin a date when I get released back to the Santa Maria kip on Camden Street?
March 22nd, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Also there’s Http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/ based in Limerick City
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Poetblog - sounds cool. I did a similar project online in dutch.
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Thought you might be interested in the fact that I have a little blog focused on Irish and US poetry at http://sweeneypoetry.blogspot.com
Regards
Paul
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
Hello friends:
May I invite you to visit my blogs:
http://rksingh.blogspot.com
http://profrksingh.blogspot.com
and share your comments on my poetry.
Thanks
R K Singh