Ceo

Gabriel Rosenstock

Titeann ceo, ag sileadh go mín ar Ghleann na nGabhar.

Ní fhacadar a leithéid riamh cheana

(ó chuaigh an béaloideas i léig).

Luíonn ar nithe nach bhfuil ann níos mó

caidéal an pharóiste

cnámha linbh

lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge: aistriúchán a dhein Seán Bán an Ghleanna ar Virgil.

Titeann an ceo ar nithe nach raibh riamh ann

ar an mbaguette a iompraíonn an dealbhóir

M. Thierry Gillet tríd an mbaile

is nach baguette in aon chor é

ach go meabhraíonn a bhaile dúchais Rennes dó.

Measann duine áirithe go bhféadfaí é a ithe.

Blaiseann sí spúnóg den cheo agus í sásta leis.

Foilsíonn cúpla oideas sa pháipéar áitiúil

ceo le mil, le cnónna agus mar sin de.

Duine eile á mheas gur cheart sampla a ghlacadh den cheo

is é a chur go dtí an Rialtas

ar eagla gur bhaol don phobal é.

Nach ón Rialtas a tháinig sé an chéad lá

arsa fear eile.

Níor chuaigh éinne amach ina dhiaidh sin

go dtí gur ghlan an ceo.

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 124:

Edited by Eavan Boland

Poetry Ireland Review 124 contains new poems from Paula Meehan, Ciarán O'Rourke, Lizzy Nichols, Mark Ward, Gabriel Rosenstock, Özgecan Kesici, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and many other compelling voices. Also included is Eilean Ni Chuilleanáin's remembrance of her Cork childhood, excerpted from The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space, a book of essays reviewed in issue 124 by Caitríona O'Reilly. Other books considered in this issue include collections from Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Mark Granier, Tara Bergin, The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, and the Collected Poems of the late Dennis O'Driscoll, and there's also a short interview with Thomas Kinsella along with an essay on Kinsella as poet and civil servant. Another Kinsella is this issue’s Featured Poet, Alice Kinsella, and all artwork for the issue is supplied by artists associated with the Olivier Cornet Gallery on Great Denmark Street, around the corner from Poetry Ireland.

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