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Juden für Palästina! (Jews for Palestine!)
The accompanying video is of Emma Kirkby (an old family favourite of ours) singing “Dido’s Lament” by Henry Purcell. It’s one of the saddest pieces of English music I’ve ever heard, and so, is most appropriate.
I’ve modelled my poem around Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”, on the premise that the night we currently face is not, in any sense ...
Friday 8th March 2024 12:40 pm
To a Fellow Artist
To a Fellow Artist
It’s often asked: wherein does beauty lie,
In mystery bound, proportions magical,
Deciphered only by the observer’s eye,
Or in some poet’s words deemed lyrical?
I know that beauty’s not in sparkling dross,
Perfection is for fools; an empty frame,
In masterpieces, lines are found and lost,
And here, in life’s chiaroscuro lives a flame,
A caring smi...
Friday 29th December 2023 12:16 pm
Oh the Irony!
So, fellow poets, Rwanda’s safe…isn’t it?
Tell that to our friend, Innocent Bahati,
The Kigali school teacher, whose words are illicit,
And offensive to Rwanda’s high and mighty.
Come on, you poets, do you fancy a visit
To Rwanda to tell Bahati: it’s safe!
Well you can’t, because Bahati’s simply, disappeared,
Desaparecido, as Thatcher’s generals would say.
Worldwide, one h...
Friday 7th July 2023 11:45 am
Comment is Free
“Comment is free…
but facts are sacred”,
an ed. once said.
But I’m fact-free,
and my prejudice naked,
when things are said
with which I don’t agree.
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
4th July 2023
PEN International calls on the Rwandan authorities to urgently come clear and publicly account for the whereabouts of poet Innocent Bahati who has been missing since 7 February 2021.
https://www.pen...
Tuesday 4th July 2023 12:24 pm
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