Book Review: Sarah Clancy: Stacey and the Mechanical Bull. Lapwing Press, Belfast 2010. Sarah Clancy is interviewed by Dave Lordan below It’s rare enough to go come across a volume of poetry that wouldn’t render…
Posts By David Lordan
The Options
The Options All the papers are saying the Invisible Hand is on the way back. Do you remember the last time it came, not so long ago atall? It stole your job. It tried to…
Dave Lordan interviews Karl Parkinson: Angel of the Flats
Interview: Dave Lordan: You’ve just put out ‘A Sacrament of Song’ with Kit Fryatt’s Wurm Press. It’s a brilliantly uplifting chapbook. Tell us a bit about it? Karl Parkinson: Well, firstly, I’m very happy that…
Pretending to be Taoiseach
Pretending to be Taoiseach Nearly all politicians are dummies and mimics, as are most junkies and drunks. Also in nature predators learn off their roles by long-settled rote and so do their victims. Dissent is…
An Artist’s Pledge to Boycott
I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against apartheid Israel. Compared to the imprisoned Palestinian…
Scream Blue Murmur Interview and Tracks!
The performance troupe Scream Blue Murmur, formerly known as the Belfast Poets’ Touring Group, are pathbreakers in Ireland’s currently burgeoning live arts scene. Here they are interviewed by fellow poet and performer Dave Lordan of…
Three Gaza Poems
Gaza via London Oh child of chance, Oh blasted child, Fair as ever anything, Universe of wasted grace. Kneeling now and always now In your ruined house Hearing troops of a general doom Whistling with…
A resurrection in Charlesland (An Extract)
From A resurrection in Charlesland All the golden nest-egg rows changed back to brick. The hoardings’ painted sunrays sprouted teeth and claws. In the online brochures the blue computerised skys were recoded as nets that…
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