Emily Dickinson

'I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music.' Nelly Sachs in a letter to Paul Celan, from 'Flight and Metamorphosis' tr. Joshua Weiner (F,S &G, 2022)

And here you come, with a cup of tea Wreathed in steam. The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. You hand me two children, two roses. The very first Sylvia Plath poem that I read was "Kindness", allpoetry.com/poem/8498417... #SylviaPlath #Poets #Kindness #OTD

Anne Carson, Decreation

I kiss my hand To the stars, lovely-asunder Starlight, wafting him out of it; and Glow, glory in thunder; Gerard Manley Hopkins from 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' #Images #Poets #Hopkins #Kissmyhandtothedappled-with-damsomwest

As Kingfishers Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation #Hopkins #FavouritePoets

Emily Dickinson

Reed Songs I-IV were first published in A New Ulster #7 (2013) and in 'Cycles' (Lapwing Press, 2013) ia801008.us.archive.org/17/items/ree... [PDF] I archived them at @archive.org archive.org/details/reed...

'Chaplet' poethead.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/c... by C. Murray 'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. #Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet

Selecting for the Basic Income for the Arts must remain random and on the basis of certain criteria.

I believe that the criteria for awarding artist exemption and BIA are fairer than the arts council. It is based on cultural merit in the tax system and that extends into the BIA. Not who your publisher has dinner with/ blows a line with.

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget, www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"Periphery" from Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020)

They, like all creatures, being made For the shovel and worm, Ransacked their perishable minds and found Pattern and form And with their own hands quarried from hard words A figure in which secret things confide. Eavan Boland, from “The Poets” #poetry #writer

The wind got up in the night and took our plans away -John Berger, "Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls” #everynightapoem #ofsorts

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers” #earlymodern

Myra Vennard (1929-2022) ‘Stormriver’ and other poems poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/s...

This list is astonishing. Individuals recording rainfall for 50, 60, 70 years. 👇All hail the reliable people!

“National Poetry Day,” huh? Sure, why not. Anyway here’s Paul Celan.

Public Consultation Confirms Overwhelming Support for making Basic Income for the Arts Permanent: www.gov.ie/en/departmen... #BIA #BasicIncomeForTheArts

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’ @keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Robert Lax

Tony Harrison died on 26 September. The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 published nearly thirty of his poems over the years. He will be much missed. The most famous of those poems was ‘v.’, first published in our pages forty years ago – a fearless, state-of-the-nation epic. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

'I always feel, especially in my fallow periods, that I don’t recognise this monster who finishes my work with such intensity. It’s like Rumpelstiltskin coming in and turning all the straw into gold and then going away again.' #riptonyharrison bit.ly/46y5JUU

In memory of Breda Wall Ryan, whose anniversary is today. Fragmenting…defragmenting… by Breda Wall Ryan poethead.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/f... Raven Mothers was published by @doirepress.bsky.social

Now playing "V" by Tony Harrison which has a profanity label btw: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...

"The Blasphemer's Banquet" By Tony Harrison was a film-poem written by Tony Harrison in response to the riots around Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses". An act of love and solidarity by Harrison. I read it first in his book "The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film poems". RIP Tony Harrison

"—in poetry, a landscape is never only outer, it is also a portrait of a state of soul." - Jane Hirshfield, "Poetry and the Mind of Concentration"

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

Today is Poet Eavan Boland's birthday #OTD. Eavan Boland (1944-2020) Quarantine: poets.org/poem/quarant... Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet: poets.org/poem/atlanti... #MuchMissed #IrishWomenPoets #EavanBoland

Poems by Rosmarie Waldrop set by David Bremner and performed by David on organ and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard Well worth a listen soundcloud.com/david-bremne...

Basic Income for the Arts Cost/ Benefit Analysis: www.gov.ie/en/departmen... #BIA #Pilot #TheArts

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. Anne Carson

Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Cryptic Creation: Her Unknown Language and Unknown Letters www.medievalists.net/2025/06/hild... #MiddleAges

‘Her style is so direct that it’s surprising how much it can hide. Biography seems to be an answer to a sense among some readers that Stein does not mean what she says, or that in some way we are being deceived.’ Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein, in the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

RIP Robert Redford. All The President's Men is in my top ten movies of all time. Brilliant Movie.

Pierre Joris — Poasis: Many Tongues, Many Fires POASIS II, Selected poems 2000–2024 (Wesleyan University Press, 2025) & Memorial for Pierre who we sadly lost this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrlF... RIP my friend. Pierre shared Celan translations with me, including Microliths.

‘nocturne for voices one and two’ Machine-readable: textworksite.com/2021/11/08/n... Audio: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf... Internet Archive (Issue / Daisy/ PDF / ) archive.org/details/noct...

‘Nocturne for voices one and two’ was performed by Una Lee in "Songs to Stay Awake to". Elizabeth Hilliard's series "How the World Begins Again" occurred post-pandemic. The series title is by Poet Eavan Boland, from "Code". www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf... Words ia800409.us.archive.org/31/items/noc...

Thank you to the folks who have read the Reed Songs uploaded to @archive.org. The Reed Songs I-IV were published in A New Ulster #7, and then collected in my book "Cycles" (Lapwing Press, 2013). PDF: ia601008.us.archive.org/17/items/ree... #Archives #PublishedBooks #LapwingPress #ANewUlster

My path is a cross of burning trees, Lit by crows carrying fire in their beaks. I ask the guardians of these lands for permission to enter. I am a visitor to this history. ... What do I expect in this New England seaport town, near the birthplace of democracy, Where I am a ghost? Joy Harjo

Valuable article on Hopkins' metaphysics: "It was this awareness of the cosmos as fundamentally complex, its diverse parts held together in varying degrees of subordination, that was the foundation of Hopkins’s mature thought." academic.oup.com/eic/article-... In: "Essays in Criticism" Journal

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light. T. S. Eliot, 1934

Emily Dickinson

Some girls have hairs on their heads, Artful girls have hares in their hearts. From "The Hare Arch" by Eilis Ní Dhuibhne The poem accompanied Alice Maher's exhibition 'The Night Garden'

Oread by H.D #Imagism #HildaDolittle

It is H.D's Birthday today. There will be lots of lovely links to her work. I am adding here #PENNSOUND. #HildaDolittle #HD #OTD writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...

'Chaplet' poethead.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/c... by C. Murray 'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. #Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet

One of my electronic chapbooks is a shade off 800 hits on the @archive.org archive.org/details/Thre... Chapbooks, newspaper essays, and a chaplet at my account on the Internet Archive archive.org/details/@chr...