The Stone Street Press

Published on August 25th, 2009 by Malachi

In preparing my “Pangur Ban” workshop for Thursday, I’ve been googling all over the place. And that research has taken me to many different places, some informative, some not; some repetitive; some greedily plagiaristic. Many prosaic. And some…quite poetic. One in particular, in a blog (entitled, I think, “Alien in the World” –or was it “Aliens…”?) explored some questions of provenance connected with “Pangur Ban” –the poem, the poet, the various manuscripts –and did it in a wonderful way.

Published on December 30th, 2006 by Malachi

On Poetry
There is an old Irish Triad about poetry that has always appealed to me –it says so much about poetry, and committment to poetry, and the demand that poetry exerts upon us:
It is death to mock a poet
It is death to love a poet
It is death to be a poet
I don’t know how far [...]