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  • Press Release: Love, Loss, and Lockdown in New Irish Poetry Collection

    Nov 15th, 2021

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Scott De Buitléir releases second bilingual poetry collection, with foreword from Scottish Gaelic writer, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir

    Love during lockdown, childhood memories, gay rights history, and spirituality are just some of the themes covered in Elysium // Párthas, the new poetry collection from Scott De Buitléir. 

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  • Poem: Nightwalk

    Mar 11th, 2021

    Trigger Warning: Assault, Murder

    In memory of Sarah Everard.

    Breath by breath 
    she counts, in and out
    and thinks of anything else
    – tonight was a good night, overall

    Step by step
    the path she knew so well
    was darker then, but the same danger
    for threats persist without shadow. 

    Inch by inch
    the goosebumps ran
    over skin he touched, before:
    “Sorry, I’ve got a man” 

    A lie which lay
    between scorn and escape, 
    his eyes seared into hers, piercing:
    “Right, whatever, see ya later” 

    Pick up the pace,
    keys firm in hand
    should a cat call need a southpaw 
    – only six more streets left.

    Steps echoed to a rhythm
    not of her own, for echoes of
    sound and mind keep apace 
    – don’t look back, just go

    but pace and path
    catch up at last
    and a laneway became a gateway
    – exit, stage left. 

    Rose by rose,
    the petals fall
    with heads down as her coffin’s laid low 

    And yet, they’ll explain
    instead of how he got away, 
    that it was her fault, somehow,
    she was slain.

    –

    Cork, 11 March 2021

  • Gearrscéal: An Dordveidhil

    Mar 7th, 2021

    Ba é an chéad dordveidhil a fuair Ciara ná an ceann céanna is a bhí ag a seanmháthair; í ina dordveidhleadóir le ceolfhoireann i bPáras, tráth. Tugadh L’Étoile d’Irlande – réalt na hÉireann – uirthi i measc lucht an cheoil sa Fhrainc agus i gcuid mhaith eile na hEorpa. Bhí clú uirthi mar dhordveidhleadóir den chéad scoth, ó Rann na Feirste go dtí an Róimh agus ó Chonamara go Cív. Nuair a d’éirigh sí as a bheith ina ceoltóir proifisiúnta, thug sí a ‘leanbh’ – dordveidhil a rinneadh i bPáras – do Chiara mar bhronntanas dá hochtú breithlá déag. Faoin am sin, bhí Ciara ag seinnt leis an gceolfhoireann náisiúnta agus bhí sí ag cleachtadh le haghaidh éisteachta do cheolfhoireann i Londain. Bhí sí cinnte dearfa go raibh sí chun céimeanna a seanmháthar a leanúint, agus dul níos faide ná mar a chuaigh sí féin.

    Léigh NÍOS MÓ
  • Gearrscéal: Caife

    Feb 18th, 2021

    Dóibh siúd a thabharfadh faoi ndeara í, bhí cuma deas go leor ar Áine. Bheadh an blús bán iarnáilte go deas aici; cnaipe amháin ar oscailt chun a muinice airgid a thaispeáint. Uaireadóir airgid ar chaol a láimhe chlé, brístí dubha agus bróga dubha dheasa. Bheadh a cuid gruaige déanta suas aici go stíleach freisin, don chuid is mó den am. Bhí sí stíleach, agus shíl sí féin go raibh sí cairdiúil do dhaoine – nó bhí súil aici go raibh an chuma sin uirthi.

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  • Poem: Prayer

    Feb 1st, 2021

    We are uneasy, living
    in such mundane luxury as this:

    The privilege of stasis,
    waiting on the last to die
    like the first-born sons of Egypt
    while we at home watch dust build
    over dust, ashes to ashes.

    We, rich
    – for now –
    in hygiene and health
    know not the pain of that final Facetime,
    a window without closure,
    yet we’re all in this together.

    While heretics sacrifice
    humanity to false gods,
    not in search of promised land
    but to maim our immortal soul
    and take from us our hope and love

    And yet, throughout, we faithful pray
    for salvation, sought in how we stay
    and wait for the glory of a warm embrace.

    Cork, 1 February 2021

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