A refurbishment of Poetry Ireland’s headquarters has seen the organisation temporarily housed in the Cregan Library on DCU’s St. Patrick’s campus in Drumcondra. Read more…
What separates Bukowski from the ranks of other famous poets is that his language is comprehensible and sadly simple. There is no room for rhyme, alliteration or onomatopoeia in his 1500 collected poems, so how can he even be considered a poet? What makes this cynical alcoholic a poet is that he evokes genuine feelings from the reader. Read more…
This generations ‘instapoets’ are a breath of fresh air for an artform that seemed to be dying. Many young people can no longer relate to the heavy poetry of the likes of John Keats of whom they may have studied laboriously throughout their secondary school education. Read more…
Amongst the Sessions many wonderful absurdities is the unspoken policy of silence when an act is on until a song, or bit, or piece is finished, a rule that not only works but adds to the intimacy of the performances because you can not hear the listeners. Read more…
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast month, poet Leonita Flynn won the Irish Times Poetry Now award for her collection ‘The Radio’. Previous winners such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Sinéad Morrissey and Caitríona O’Reilly show that she is up Read more…
[dropcap]Once[/dropcap] upon a time, poetry was thought of as one of the most beautiful and most important art forms in existence. Nowadays it could be questioned as to whether it is as widely appreciated. If Read more…
[dropcap]Rupi[/dropcap] Kaur, the Instagram poet who has arguably changed modern poetry, has published more of her work in a collection called ‘the sun and her flowers’. It is, to put it simply, another literary masterpiece.
Milk and Honey is a stunning poetry book written by Rupi Kaur, a Canadian writer of Indian descent. In the beginning, she posted her work on Instagram along with simple drawings which are a key Read more…
In Battle of The Eighth, Zainab Boladale highlights how historically and traditionally women have always been the victimised by the laws that govern our society. The very same victimisation that can be seen in the arguments Read more…
Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair bears the marks of experience. Scott Laudati, in his first book of poetry, summons a plethora of different situations to describe a world view that is at times cynical, Read more…
Odrán de Bhaldraithe speaks to DCU student Melissa Kavangh, co-captain of Ireland’s team in Brave New Voices, the world’s largest ongoing spoken word event. Read more…