Archive for July, 2010

SAINT NARCISSUS , KEEP US SANE ´N WHOLLY

Dear Accusative / Nominative ” ME”, 1. Are you ? 2. Are you YOU ? 3. Are you ME ? 4. How can I ever be – come you ( – or, of course, “You”, eh ? ) 5. which of us loves which ? whom ? 6. Will you prove revengefull – also to [...]

AND JUST TO COOL THE HOT JULY MIND

FOUR HAIKUS 2010 1. “E-mail me ” I whinged. Not one duck in this white plain. Sad eye is sad world. 2. He´s going blind too, The phone was dead this Christmas Bach´s organ very still 3. It is Parkinson´s Two white organist´s knuckles Cranned in the snow-clouds 4. My bicycle song: ” Steely fugues, [...]

GREAT JULY HEAT – So Here´s A Cold Haiku

The poet´s world cold, Whitens , shivers and glitters. Thought and word frozen. ( Próinsias Bán ´O Basho ; Nollaig 2009 )

HARK ! HARK ! THE SUMMER LARK !

Nova Bernard Clarke Sunday, July 18th. RTE / Lyric FM Radio 9-11pm Presented by Bernard Clarke. Nova is about new composers, new trends and new audiences. All new music here and now, chronicling what’s radical and what’s conservative, who’s established and who’s in the avant garde. A blend of contemporary classical, electronic, experimental and more. [...]

THIS HOT SUMMER HOLE IN THE FABRIC

Ciccadas today going for the late afternoon, I hear. The Irish love not their contemporary Irish music ; all a matter of marketing, you´d think so. Heavens ! Give us a bit of a tune! Sure I saw it at the 2005 Zagreb World Music Days, myself a mighty juror, Stanko Horvat now dead nearly [...]