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Down With This Sort of Thing! Poems In Protest Against Ireland's New Blasphemy Law

category national | arts and media | press release author Saturday July 25, 2009 00:57author by Over The Edge Report this post to the editors

Galway's literary events organisation Over The Edge is looking for poems in opposition to Ireland's new blasphemy law.
William Wall
William Wall

DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING! poems in opposition to Ireland's new blasphemy law

send your poems on this theme to
over-the-edgeopenreadings@hotmail.com
and we will publish the best of them here
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/07/d....html

Poets who've already contributed poems include William Wall, Dave Lordan, Susan Millar DuMars and Patrick Chapman.

Related Link: http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/07/down-with-this-sort-of-thing-poems-in.html

Patrick Chapman
Patrick Chapman

Susan Millar DuMars
Susan Millar DuMars

Dave Lordan
Dave Lordan

author by Miltonpublication date Mon Aug 24, 2009 00:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth . . ."

author by Over The Edgepublication date Sun Aug 23, 2009 03:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Poems by PJ Kelly of Galway and Paul Casey of Cork have now been added and can be read here http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/07/d....html just scroll down.

We are still accepting poems for this. E-mail them to over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com

author by HP Craftlovepublication date Fri Jul 31, 2009 20:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I can't remember who said it, but there was an American writer who claimed
Blasphemy was a "victimless crime". ;)

author by Over The Edgepublication date Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

submissions are welcome from everyone; e-mail poems to over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com

author by Street Poetpublication date Thu Jul 30, 2009 08:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Having looked at this poetry blog I see that only big names are allowed. Which is fine to a point except that it gives no encouragement to the ordinary street poets who write from the heart.

This exemplifies the narrow culture and snobbish values, that prevail in most of the poetry organisations that exist on the off shore islands of Europe.

I am not condenming the known poets, but surely there is room for the unknown street poet to be given a chance to express themselves if only to give them encouragement ?

Why pander only to a certain few ? Is there no value in what others experience and express in prose ?

author by Over The Edgepublication date Thu Jul 30, 2009 02:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There is an article about our poems in opposition to the new blasphemy law campaign in today's Galway Advertiser http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/15173

author by Over The Edgepublication date Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

New poems by Miceál Kearney, Alan Jude Moore and Liam Duffy have now been added. They can be viewed at http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/07/d....html

author by Laureate Larrypublication date Sun Jul 26, 2009 00:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

These lines of W H Auden might provide reverse inspiration:

I'm afraid there's many a spectacled sod
Prefers the British Museum to God.

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