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Liam Carson
@liamcarson.bsky.social
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Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 3d
Brilliant!
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 3d
a squirrel
leaps to attention
the church bell tolls
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 3d
bog at night
the old man’s warning
of bottomless holes

Everest
in its melting snow
dead bodies

man scoops
ice from the river
wraps it in straw

buried
in the dark bog
hand-made butter

hands
shaping a symbol
bog body
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 3d
rainy Dublin
in a doorway’s shelter
lovers chase the dragon

side by side
in the autumn wind
lovers lost in phones
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 3d
hanging
in a garden shed
dead father's coats
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · Aug 12
I'm so horrified by the things I read
that I read with one
eye covered
and even then
I skim

because we're only seven months in
and already the country is rolling
over
and no one is
righting the ship

I thought we would
I thought,
ultimately,
we would

I did.

I really thought
the hero
would be us.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 6d
Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Keen to have a copy of this, out of print for some time. Luckily there's a new edition from University of Arkansas Press next year. Love the excerpts I have read so far. Hallucinatory, incantatory, gorgeously weird.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 6d
Current reading. Sarah Orne Jewett's short novel of life in a small American town is both lyrical and sparse, suspect this was an influence on Ursula Le Guin's Searoad. Nice wee read.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 6d
Very pleased with Adam Wyeth's nice review of Belfast Twilight on latest episode of Books for Breakfast (Ireland) podcast. At link below.
84: New Poetry Collections Reviewed - Books for Breakfast (Ireland)
On today’s episode poet and critic Adam Wyeth reviews nine new poetry collections. Under the microscope are Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke; Belfast Twilight by Liam Carson; Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ahley...
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
Brilliant and true.
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 8d
these are our times:
I weep for my country,
then make a grocery list
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
fruitless flight
of a wasp in autumn
dead flower to dead flower
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
eitilt gan toradh
foiche sa bhfómhar - bláth
marbh go bláth marbh

- Liam Carson/Rody Gorman
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
The Harlan Ellison section. Wrote some amazing stories, seems to have been forgotten about, I think. At his best, a wonderful fabulist with a dark, edgy style that could sing.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
The October Country. By Ray Bradbury.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
flying out of the hole
in Hank Williams's guitar
a luna moth

Haiku found in Frank Stanford poem.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 7d
Otherworldly poetry by Frank Stanford.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 9d
Ag tabhairt faoi dánta a roghnú on chnuasach iontach seo le haghaidh léiriú de chuid IMRAM.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
Unarmed women, children and elders died in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them. And now the US government calls those troops 'brave soldiers'. MAGA would do it all again. Genocide is on their minds. They tell us what they are.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
They are, a while since last one.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
The is a huge disparity in dialects in in ANY language. And majority of classes and schools teach standard Irish. All these things you think don't exist actually do exist.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
Well, there are issues re state control etc. And what happens in Uk could happen in Republic of Ireland too.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
Well, Ireland does include the north....so it does affect a lot of Irish people. And my daughter is from Dublin, but is now in Belfast, so...
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
Agree. There is also no shortage of online courses for adults to learn Irish, if anyone wants to. Gaelchultúr, Conradh na Gaeilge and so on.
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 12d
Ok, my mistake. Misused. But my point is that the majority of Irish speakers do not 'misuse' Irish. There was always a powerful anti-sectarian strain in the Irish language movement in Belfast. My father taught Irish to hundreds of Protestants for the Workers Educational Association.
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