Tagged: “Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh”
Poem of the Week: “Another Monk and His Cat” by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
The final poem in Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior, “Another Monk and His Cat/Manach Eile agus a Chat” by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, rounds out the anthology by harkening back to its opening poem, “I and White Pangur.” The latter is “[p]erhaps the most famous poem from medieval Ireland,” and Ní Ghearbhuigh’s contemporary interpretation of the subject…
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “Tionlacan/Accompaniment” by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
I can’t say
if it was the quiet
or lonesomeness
that woke me that morning
Poem of the Week: “Áiféilín” by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
A poem in Irish by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, with a translation by Gabriel Rosenstock, from The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Vol. IV (2017)
Continue ReadingIntroducing The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Volume IV
We are happy to announce that we’ll be publishing the next volume of The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry in March. This series brings lesser-known Irish voices to an American audience. In this fourth volume, editor David Wheatley, himself an established poet and critic, has selected poetry by Trevor Joyce, Aidan Mathews, Peter McDonald, Ailbhe Darcy,…
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