The Twentieth Century and After
Though the great song return no more
In air or folio, we’re less
Demanding of it, in our
Anger ghettos. (Agent got hers,
Then got rages.) Metreless?
Get thee with metronome. No flow
Of cursives from your quill? Get Arial.
(Relaxatives for happiness.)
Go gather tens where hundreds wilt:
All meanings are in store.
In stock, in fact. In home décor.
(Love it to list it: beds atilt
Towards the Candy-cam.) And when
Her anger gets hot, gags the tenor,
Let the yester-jig be done.
Tomorrow’s tiny ticker runs
On enemas and anagrams.
Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116:
A WB Yeats Special Issue
This essential Yeats anniversary publication is edited by Vona Groarke and includes responses to Yeats’s legacy and readings of his poems from public figures as diverse as Bill Whelan, Neil Jordan, Colm Tóibín, Frank McGuinness, Mary Costello and John Banville, along with new poems responding to Yeats’s work by Irish and international poets such as Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Philip Schultz, Sinéad Morrissey and Harry Clifton. The issue also includes Yeats’s poetry collections, reviewed by leading poets as if just published. Now also available in hardback.
"superb special edition" John Boland, Irish Independent
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