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- I've heard my own work being denigrated as being mere pubtalk. If that's the case, I'm very happy with the comparison.about 3 hours ago from web
- Any poetry that confines itself to the merely literary is half dead. And I enjoy pubs a lot more than poetry readings - Ciaran Carsonabout 3 hours ago from web
- Taken on its own, in the abstract, the word ‘poetry’ is both radiant and resistant.4:29 AM Jul 7th from web
- It means so many things to so many people that it is more the signal of a value than a precisely determined lexical entity – Seamus Heaney4:29 AM Jul 7th from web
- Jaap Blonk @ the Sycamore Club next Tuesday @ 8.00pm2:20 AM Jul 3rd from web
- Sooner or later even the poem I'm most proud of lies lifeless on the page before me,2:18 AM Jul 3rd from web
- completely inert and without merit; and I have no idea where another will come from, or when - Anthony Hecht2:18 AM Jul 3rd from web
- Dublin is a very powerful and intense and abrasive atmosphere for poets,3:28 AM Jul 2nd from web
- and anyone who has lived there knows that it is as far as a poet can get from a flattering environment - Eavan Boland3:28 AM Jul 2nd from web
- There's nothing like a punch in the mouth,2:16 AM Jul 1st from web
- to remind you that that poem about your next-door neighbour was not as clever as you thought - Simon Armitage2:16 AM Jul 1st from web
- I am a poetician, not a politician - Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
YY is reading 5 July @ 4.30pm in Youghal. For more go to PI calendar.3:10 AM Jun 26th from web
- Most poets write and publish far too much. They forget the agricultural good sense of the fallow period.3:52 AM Jun 23rd from web
- The Muse despises whingers who bellyache about “writer’s block” and related ailments – Michael Longley3:52 AM Jun 23rd from web
- Anyone who begins a sentence “as a poet I” is probably not a poet. It’s like calling yourself a saint– Michael Longley1:53 AM Jun 19th from web
- It is almost as if that particular kind of patterned utterance is a mating call of some kind - Germaine Greer1:34 AM Jun 18th from web
- In all literate societies, the idea of poetry has been inextricable from the idea of love.1:34 AM Jun 18th from web
- If it isn't great poetry, it isn't poetry at all - Gilbert Adair4:09 AM Jun 17th from web
- Rock and roll and lyric poetry are closely related, or can be, in some of
the very best contemporary writers – Paul Muldoon1:30 AM Jun 12th from web
- A great poet leaves behind an opus and an aura. The opus instructs; the aura inhibits - Wayne Koestenbaum1:42 AM Jun 9th from web
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- Name Poetry Ireland
- Location Dublin, Ireland
- Web http://www.poetry...
- Bio Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann is the national organisation for poetry in Ireland.
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