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Irish Poetry

`Present-day Irish poets are believers - heretical believers, maybe - but they have the spiritual buoynancy of a belief in something. The sort of belief I see in Ireland is a belief emanating from life, from nature, from revealed religion, and from the nation. A sort of dream that produces a sense of magic; indeed there are few signs of the awful sense of respect for words which poetry demands.'
`Irish poetry remains a creation happily, fundamentally rooted in rural civilization, yet aware and in touch with the elementals of the future.'

 

F.R.Higgins in Tendencies in Modern Poetry, a discussion between Higgins and Louis MacNiece, broadcast from Northern Ireland, and reprinted in the Listener, 27 July 1939. Also appears in The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, edited by Paul Muldoon.

The Topeka St. Patrick's Day Committee has its share of poets
(this webmaster being among them). 
Here's a great one from our own Merle Bird:

To the Pure

Her fair and flawless form
Cried out for the loving touch
Of a Buonarroti, he of the
Mother and her fallen son,
Of virgin saints and sibyls,
Done not in Italian marble
But as a vessel of
The goddess Bast,
Translucent,
Fine grained,
Vulnerable
Beneath a
Lapis lazuli sky.
And, yes,
Cool to the touch.

 

Irish Poetry links:

http://www.thepoem.co.uk/poems/index.htm
http://www.irishpoets.net/

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