Poetry
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On Thursday 26th November I will be giving a ‘launch’ reading of my latest collection, ‘A Demand to be Heard’. This will be the inaugural offering of the new bi-monthly ‘Platform’ virtual reading event. Likely to be published around the 21st November, the book contains a series of ekphrastic poems based on photographs taken at…
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A poem. https://iangouge.substack.com/p/the-gate-is-locked-behind-me-now
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On Thursday 26th November I will be giving a ‘launch’ reading of my latest collection, ‘A Demand to be Heard’. This will be the inaugural offering of the new bi-monthly ‘Platform’ virtual reading event. Likely to be published around the 21st November, the book contains a series of ekphrastic poems based on photographs taken at…
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Presumably it’s not unreasonable to struggle with phonetically-written English if that’s the tactic adopted to try and conjure a particular accent. Doing so doesn’t make the work concerned ‘bad’ (nor automatically ‘good’); neither does it make me a ‘bad person’. (I assure you I try not to be!) But I did struggle with such poems…
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You may need to turn your volume up!
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I confess I couldn’t get particularly excited about Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Seasons of Cullen Church; in the main the poems felt a little insipid and insignificant, and the topics lacked a certain relevance (not being Irish, nor religious, nor knowing some of the people referenced). But they should still work for all of that. However,…
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The 38th in a long-running series of events. Details in the link below:
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We’re told by the cover flaps that Sam Riveire’s After Fame is a collection of 118 poems based – in some way shape or form – on Book 1 by the Roman poet, Martial. Which on the face of it is fair enough. However a significant proportion of the 118 are clearly not poems but…