Ciarán O’Rourke: 5 Poems
Ciarán O’Rourke is a poet from Dublin. His second collection, Phantom Gang, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2023. His third collection is forthcoming from The Irish Pages Press.
Ciarán O’Rourke
Ciarán O’Rourke: Five Poems
Ciarán O’Rourke is an Irish poet, based in Galway. His first collection, ‘The Buried Breath’, was issued by The Irish Pages Press in 2018. He runs a online archive of poetry-themed interviews, and his second collection, ‘Phantom Gang,’ is forthcoming in Spring 2022.
Placing dynamite under the whole system: Ciarán O’Rourke launches ‘Thrills & Difficulties: Being a Marxist Poet in 21st Century Ireland’
It’s a delight to be able to join in the celebrations of Kevin Higgins’s stylish, urgent, and hell-raising new pamphlet tonight: in my experience, there’s nothing quite like it in the world of Irish poetry and literary criticism. If I were to distill down to a single element what I love, and what I believe is so necessary and unique, about Kevin’s work, it’s the wild and delicious ease (to be found in abundance in this pamphlet) in skewering the pieties of both the political and literary establishments:
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