Tagged: “The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume 4”
Poem of the Week: “The mornings you turn into a grub” by Ailbhe Darcy
it begins with the heart.
You lie listening to the thunder
of bin men hoisting garbage larvae
from outside every house. Your housemate
showers, bangs things, jangles keys, moves
away at a trot.
Poem 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)
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