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The Cat Flap: After Borges
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Monday, October 20, 2014. 1 To a minor poet. Where are the days you spent on earth,. All the joy and anguish. That were your universe? The river of years has washed them away;. As an entry in the index. Proudly they gather, the gods’ gifts, immortal. Of you, dark friend, all we know. Is that one evening you heard the nightingale. Walking fields of asphodels, your slighted shade. Must think the gods harsh. But the days are a tangle of paltry needs.
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The Cat Flap: July 2012
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Carol Rumens writes about a poem of mine, 'Legacies', in The Guardian. Posted by The Cat Flap. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). João Cabral de Melo Neto. Johann P. Tammen. Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Olav H. Hauge. Songs of the Earth. Books by Peter Sirr (Gallery). Books by Peter Sirr (Wake Forest). Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires. Dublin Review of Books. The Guardian Poetry Workshop.
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The Cat Flap: March 2013
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Sunday, March 24, 2013. Hölderlin: Hälfte des Lebens. Another Hölderlin version . . .There are many versions of this poem in English, but my favourite translation is Kathleen Jamie's Scots version. Mit gelben Birnen hänget. Und voll mit wilden Rosen. Das Land in den See,. Ihr holden Schwäne,. Und trunken von Küssen. Tunkt ihr das Haupt. Weh mir, wo nehm’ ich, wenn. Es Winter ist, die Blumen, und wo. Und Schatten der Erde? Heavy with wild roses.
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The Cat Flap: A poem from The Rooms
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Sunday, October 05, 2014. A poem from The Rooms. Poem beginning with two lines by André Breton. The wardrobe is filled with linen,. There are even moonbeams I can unfold. The roof has slipped back on the gables,. Old trees march in from the cold. The wardrobe is filled with linen,. The beds are slept in again. Out of the air spill table and chairs,. The wine has crept back to the rim. The wardrobe is filled with linen,. No-one can touch or unfold.
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The Cat Flap: Writing the city
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Monday, April 28, 2014. I was asked to give a talk for the UCD Scholarcast series on ' If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song. The anthology of poems about Dublin which is this year's choice for ' One City, One Book. Here's the opening of the talk. The podcast and pdf are here. How do you write about a city? How do you even define a city? 8216;All cities are geological,’ Ivan Chtcheglov, tells us. He knew that posterity had no use.
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The Cat Flap: April 2013
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Long, longer, longish. With thanks to Poetry Ireland Review. 160;(the poem appears in issue 109, edited by John F. Deane). The issue is partly devoted to long, longer and longish poems, which tend not to get much room in journals as a rule. Galway Kinnell, Harry Clifton, James Harpur, Patricia McCarthy and Robert Minhinnick also contribute longer pieces, and theres an interview with Bernard ODonoghue. With calm affectio...
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The Cat Flap: October 2014
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Monday, October 20, 2014. 1 To a minor poet. Where are the days you spent on earth,. All the joy and anguish. That were your universe? The river of years has washed them away;. As an entry in the index. Proudly they gather, the gods’ gifts, immortal. Of you, dark friend, all we know. Is that one evening you heard the nightingale. Walking fields of asphodels, your slighted shade. Must think the gods harsh. But the days are a tangle of paltry needs.
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The Cat Flap: Calvino's letters
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Friday, July 26, 2013. The letters of Italo Calvino? The rest of the review is on the Irish Times site. Posted by The Cat Flap. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). João Cabral de Melo Neto. Johann P. Tammen. Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Olav H. Hauge. Songs of the Earth. Books by Peter Sirr (Gallery). Books by Peter Sirr (Wake Forest). Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires. Dublin Review of Books. The Guardian Poetry Workshop.
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The Cat Flap: Well, Kerrang!!!
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Monday, April 20, 2015. Where Have You Been? By Michael Hofmann, Faber and Faber, 304 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0571323661. Poet, translator, critic – for Michael Hofmann these different job specifications are all aspects of the same enterprise, projections of the same sensibility. The poetry came first, the reputation established with. Nights in the Iron Hotel. 1983) That collection and those that followed –. Two old ladies dying of terror, thinking.
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The Cat Flap: September 2012
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The Cat Flap is a mainly poetry blog written by Peter Sirr. Tuesday, September 04, 2012. A Rebel Act: Michael Hartnett’s Farewell to English. 8364;14.99 (PB). In 1974 Michael Hartnett made the decision to take his leave of English and from then to write in Irish only. Or did he? Posted by The Cat Flap. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). João Cabral de Melo Neto. Johann P. Tammen. Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Olav H. Hauge. Songs of the Earth. A Rebel Act: Michael Hartnett’s Farewell to Englis. Dublin Review of Books.
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