tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49149958350272623802024-03-14T07:18:35.782+00:00hardPressed poetryA blog from Catherine Walsh and Billy Mills.
<br>
We publish and distribute poetry that you won't often find in your local bookshop.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-15948505551107889782023-03-12T20:34:00.000+00:002023-03-12T20:34:02.637+00:00Maurice Scully 1952 - 2023 PoetMay his gentle noble soul rest peacefully.<div><br /></div><div>All of us here at hardPressed poetry deeply mourn the recent unexpected loss of Maurice.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are sad, bereft, and ask you to pay your respects to him by keeping on reading his work, all of it.</div><div>Keep its senses of attention to, its love of, what it is to live in this world being human.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-18185458531564310832019-09-13T16:44:00.001+01:002020-05-21T12:53:19.395+01:00Now out: hardPressed poetry Dual Poet Reader: Four - Rosmarie Waldrop and Damien Lennon<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t-jtPjtpgrs/XXu4i_EIoYI/AAAAAAAAAKc/P8cCaNmxLzYwoVJyvj24dIYDmlOndn7OwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Dual%2B4.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>The fourth in hardPressed poetry's series of Dual Poet readers is available soon. Read a sequence of prose poems called IN ANYONE'S LANGUAGE by Rosmarie Waldrop, and a poem-sequence, 'give the void its colours' by Damien Lennon.<br />
<br />
Order directly from us here using the button on the right of the Blog page or by emailing hardpressedpoetryATgmailDOTcomhardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-14341988892822115182019-03-08T22:52:00.001+00:002019-03-08T23:27:23.151+00:00Now out: hardPressed poetry Dual Poet Reader: Three - Maurice Scully and Jordi Valls Pozo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fqA5ChOcaBo/XILvtqDIv9I/AAAAAAAAAJU/9SlQejdXe2UmVd74eKhzkVwFWFWM_FoegCLcBGAs/s1600/dual%2B3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fqA5ChOcaBo/XILvtqDIv9I/AAAAAAAAAJU/9SlQejdXe2UmVd74eKhzkVwFWFWM_FoegCLcBGAs/s320/dual%2B3.png" width="207" /></a></div>
<span id="goog_1453353257"></span><span id="goog_1453353258"></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The third in hardPressed poetry's series of Dual Poet readers is now available. Read a sequence called <i>Paths </i>by Irish poet
Maurice Scully, and by Jordi Valls Pozo, two sets of poems<i>, EVIL </i>and<i> </i><i>GUILLEM TELL </i>in Catalan, with English
versions by Raoul Izzard. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Order direct from us here using the button on the right of the Blog page or by mailing hardpressedpoetryATgmailDOTcom.</span>hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-51502673756631737982017-10-08T23:30:00.002+01:002017-10-08T23:30:34.779+01:00DISCOUNT PRE-ORDER: hardPressed Dual Poets Reader: Two<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MaIrROk0iAI/WdqmYvFBBCI/AAAAAAAAAIA/81BmAW6Th1Uv4vK9L3W2JXM__f7fI0D2ACLcBGAs/s1600/hardpressed%2Bdual%2Bpoets%2BCover%2B3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="79" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MaIrROk0iAI/WdqmYvFBBCI/AAAAAAAAAIA/81BmAW6Th1Uv4vK9L3W2JXM__f7fI0D2ACLcBGAs/s1600/hardpressed%2Bdual%2Bpoets%2BCover%2B3.png" /></a>HEADS UP <span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">đ</span></span><span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">đ</span></span><br />
2nd hardPressed Dual Poets Reader with work by Linda Chown and David Miller.<br />
COMING SOON. <span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">đ</span></span><span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">đ</span></span><br />
<br />
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER at < hardpressedpoetry@gmail.com > and via < <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardpressedpoetry.blogspot.ie%2F&h=ATOrxZCaROB0ckHL3pHmhIUP9SvL8de2_CaSONKhI7x20WNHrfKxDkyv7adkNeHlSdElhWbXJZeI6ZP-SlEn7yPj7yy9j6qTjDGLGwwNOq23zWMIshdFx4lMnA17dp25v72CU6iRQJP4Vh1NP1CnzmtjBb0ib1RtEofAVK5D-oHbdUiuhJp_eEyMI4yL3fEbOUcEUQGdsBt2zgIuasF9DV-C4Y2CWl9TjJURmqmci3x74WT53Mndc4TodEHOofyHpfnMFSRAwjIcTLm9_buuCJqWO7Pc_b8" href="http://hardpressedpoetry.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">http://hardpressedpoetry.blogspot.ie/</a> ><br />
Pre-order directly from hardPressed Poetry to get a two euro discount per copy anywhere in the world.<br />
<br />
DISCOUNT PRICE FOR PRE-ORDER:<br /> E10 per copy pre-ordered from today until October 30th 2017 only.<br />
AFTER October 30th: <span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">đ</span></span><span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">đ</span></span><br /> Price: E12.<br />
<br />
DIRECT ORDERS TO hardpressedpoetry <br /> hardpressedpoetry@gmail.com <br /> < <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardpressedpoetry.blogspot.ie%2F&h=ATN5f-H8MnXkHK8hbcaz5HRq98TDB3AXVJy2-EwA--HAbD-FEF4dLypyLa0x_KTs5m3-jEwo5M1sUOMXDXs8XHbbgrLD5hS3kGx59Vk3jhGyM7DHsNylj_8B95X1LAlORVpF9pYhkrG0aCK-GiUzMJVZDOFYGrYJ_IakFz2sMF3m5--sPOlkGu0TUfO0s0628PbQgrtCRXj8y9QDqHrm1UvXISGk5k8OHcq8sKmHn4_zH5a-oGZuFjkRETwWTPpWl-k-A7AUqp6QvAYhV_EK-YvwO5tNe1A" href="http://hardpressedpoetry.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">http://hardpressedpoetry.blogspot.ie/</a> > <span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/f1f/1/16/1f4d7.png" width="16" /></span>hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-49534026670540321112017-07-02T22:46:00.000+01:002017-07-04T16:35:58.101+01:00Just Out: hardPressed Dual Poets Reader: One<div class="MomentCapsuleCover-description u-dir" data-field="description" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #66757f; direction: ltr !important; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 24px 0px; unicode-bidi: embed;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mVhTbJTyYNI/WVu1yCFzosI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Bzdp3Mo1tOMOeS8bXsyg-x1dFsIdq-s3wCLcBGAs/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mVhTbJTyYNI/WVu1yCFzosI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Bzdp3Mo1tOMOeS8bXsyg-x1dFsIdq-s3wCLcBGAs/s320/cover.jpg" width="202" /></a></div>
hardPressed Dual Poets Reader: One is the first in a planned series of dual readers. It is a dual poet collection comprising the sequence 'You built you framing you are multiplying' by Sheila Mannix and a set of poems under the title 'My Name is Gretchen Merryweather' by Nathan Spoon. Order now using the box to the right of the screen.<br />
<br />
Price 12.00 Euro.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-39204346738200259432016-09-19T20:04:00.001+01:002016-09-19T20:04:17.281+01:00The Urban Co-Op News<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_b" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;">
<div style="display: inline;">
The Urban Co-Op is open again from this Thursday, 10am to 6pm in a new location.</div>
</div>
<div class="_3x-2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
<div data-ft="{"tn":"H"}">
</div>
<div>
<div class="_5r69" style="max-width: initial;">
<div class="clearfix mtm" style="margin-top: 10px; zoom: 1;">
<a class="lfloat _ohe" href="https://www.facebook.com/hardpressedPoetry/posts/335521980132120" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; float: left; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="_s0 _54ru img" src="https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/c0.0.32.32/p32x32/13912486_316844115333240_4293849863772135275_n.jpg?oh=94de592bb6db1f5117afdd60b3dd7061&oe=5874BFCB" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 32px; width: 32px;" /></a><div class="plm _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; padding-left: 10px;">
<span class="mbs _11dd fwn fcg" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" style="color: #90949c; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span class="fwb" data-ft="{"tn":"k"}" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hardpressedPoetry/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">HardPressed poetry</a></span></span><div class="_5pcp" style="color: #90949c; position: relative;">
<span class="fsm fwn fcg"><a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/hardpressedPoetry/posts/335521980132120" style="color: #90949c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="">3 hrs</a></span><span aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"> · </span><a aria-label="Public" class="uiStreamPrivacy inlineBlock fbStreamPrivacy fbPrivacyAudienceIndicator _5pcq" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-content="Public" href="https://www.facebook.com/hardpressedPoetry/?ref=aymt_homepage_pan#" role="button" style="color: #90949c; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; zoom: 1;"><i class="lock img sp_LlKlUtv6e15 sx_159614" style="background-image: url("/rsrc.php/v3/yz/r/tWlSPftAt0u.png"); background-position: -50px -131px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; bottom: -1px; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-bottom: -5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; width: 12px;"></i></a></div>
<div class="mtm _5pco" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="color: #666666; margin-top: 10px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hardpressedpoetry?source=feed_text&story_id=335521980132120" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">hardpressedPoetry</span></span></a> & <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hardpressedpoetryworkspace?source=feed_text&story_id=335521980132120" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">hardpressedPoetryWorkspace</span></span></a> will be back at The Urban Co-Op <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wehavemoved?source=feed_text&story_id=335521980132120" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">WehaveMoved</span></span></a> to The Tait House (formerly Southill House)<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/readers?source=feed_text&story_id=335521980132120" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">readers</span></span></a> and <span class="_5afx" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/writers?source=feed_text&story_id=335521980132120" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">writers</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
And when we return, this is where we'll be.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-61337112778329169082016-08-15T17:45:00.000+01:002016-08-15T17:45:28.970+01:00hardPressed poetry has a new Facebook page<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25.5px;">The press has a new Facebook page </span><a data-mce-href="https://t.co/xICYC4yBEC" href="https://t.co/xICYC4yBEC" style="background-color: white; color: #00aadc; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25.5px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25.5px;">. Why not pay us a visit?</span>hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-50173246682930545972016-08-11T20:13:00.000+01:002016-08-11T20:13:27.271+01:00International Call for Writers on Trump<div class="tr_bq">
The following petition was created by Catherine today. Click <a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/international-call-for-writers-on-trump/" target="_blank">here </a>if you want to sign.</div>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
This is a European created petition which replicates 'WRITERS ON TRUMP' the U.S. petition against Trump's candidacy for presidency of the U.S. I have started this petition in support of all of our writing contemporaries in the United States, to visibly demonstrate the solidarity of all kinds of international writers with their campaign. Please read what they have to say below and sign this petition if you are in agreement.<br />Thank you.<br />Catherine Walsh.</blockquote>
<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
"The following is a statement signed by more than 23808 U.S. writers, regarding the candidacy of Donald J. Trump for the Presidency of the United States. If you agree with usâwhoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you liveâwe hope you'll join us by adding your name and the state you live in and help us spread the word. Many thanks.</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR FELLOW AMERICANS</b></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b>Because, as writers, we are particularly aware of the many ways that language can be abused in the name of power;<br />Because we believe that any democracy worthy of the name rests on pluralism, welcomes principled disagreement, and achieves consensus through reasoned debate;<br />Because American history, despite periods of nativism and bigotry, has from the first been a grand experiment in bringing people of different backgrounds together, not pitting them against one another;<br />Because the history of dictatorship is the history of manipulation and division, demagoguery and lies;<br />Because the search for justice is predicated on a respect for the truth;<br />Because we believe that knowledge, experience, flexibility, and historical awareness are indispensable in a leader;<br />Because neither wealth nor celebrity qualifies anyone to speak for the United States, to lead its military, to maintain its alliances, or to represent its people;<br />Because the rise of a political candidate who deliberately appeals to the basest and most violent elements in society, who encourages aggression among his followers, shouts down opponents, intimidates dissenters, and denigrates women and minorities, demands, from each of us, an immediate and forceful response;<br />For all these reasons, we, the undersigned, as a matter of conscience, oppose, unequivocally, the candidacy of Donald J. Trump for the Presidency of the United States."</blockquote>
hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-7319360647465967152016-05-30T22:00:00.000+01:002016-06-04T17:20:47.210+01:00Just Published: CUADERNO NEUMEISTER / THE NEUMEISTER NOTEBOOK by Carlota Caulfield <br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8ALOeWRN-cw/V0ymxxtjPcI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rhpZbiE2cdk41lD2nQcjmRovlZN3OCClgCKgB/s1600/carlotta.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8ALOeWRN-cw/V0ymxxtjPcI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rhpZbiE2cdk41lD2nQcjmRovlZN3OCClgCKgB/s320/carlotta.jpg" width="213" /></a><b><span style="background: white; font-weight: normal;">Carlota Caulfield</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">is a poet, translator and literary critic. she is
the author of eleven collections of poetry, including <i>At the Paper Gates
with Burning Desire, The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of
memory), El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria) / Il
Libro de Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria), Movimientos metĂĄlicos
para juguetes abandonados</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> (First Hispanoamerican Poetry Prize âDulce MarĂa
Loynazâ, Spain-Cuba 2002),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Quincunce / Quincunx, Ticket to Ride. Essays and Poems, A Mapmakerâs
Diary: Selected Poems</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>and <i>Fashionable. Una poeta adicta a la moda.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> Her poetry has appeared in literary
journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">She has also translated the American writer Jack
Foley, and the Irish poets Eavan Boland, EilĂ©an NĂ ChuilleanĂĄin, Nuala NĂ
Dhomhnaill, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Medbh McGuckian, Sara Berkeley and
Catherine Walsh. In addition, she has translated a number of Hispanic poets
into English.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span></div>
<br />
About CUADERNO NEUMEISTER / THE NEUMEISTER NOTEBOOK<br />
<br />
A collection of poems in Spanish with facing-page English translations by Mary G Berg in collaboration with the poet.<br />
<br />
Carlota Caulfieldâs poems are detailed observations of an inner music
that is constantly created by listening and looking: âYou enter the
forest. / You follow the nightâs path.â This inner music is, as
Caulfield puts it (âsu materia contra mi materiaâ), âjazzable.â To the
self-referencing poet, the âIâ is âyouâ and shifts as it encounters
experience. Boundaries blur in this rich morphing of âthe soulâs grottos
andâŠlonely tunnels,â âas if you, suddenly, were to multiply yourself.â
For the reader as for the writer, The Neumeister Notebook offers us the
rare opportunity not only to live beyond our skins but âto live
beyondâŠunderstanding.â It is a phenomenology of wonder, a journey to the
things themselves and back again as âouterâ becomes âinner,â Spanish
becomes English, and world becomes spirit: âStray notes. / Listen to
them.â<br />
<br />
â Jack Foley<br />
<br />
*<br />
<br />
El numen poético que recorre este Cuaderno Neumeister busca encarnar y
ganar voz al registrar Ăntimamente la experiencia creativa de otros
artistas (mĂșsicos, pintores, escritores, constructores) con quienes
encuentra las mĂĄs disĂmiles âaunque no reveladas abiertamenteâ
afinidades o complicidades de vida: islas, exilios⊠Su autora, Carlota
Caulfield, voz singular dentro de la poesĂa cubana actual, entrega aquĂ
su diario vivir en la creaciĂłn artĂstica, lo cual le permite al final
del libro transformar ella misma en poesĂa los objetos mĂĄs cotidianos
que la rodean: una sopera, un frutero, una lĂĄmpara. La anima el lazo
humano que implica toda traducciĂłn: traducir otras artes en su arte âo
su arte en otras artesâ, otras vidas en su vida âo su vida en otras
vidasâ y, fundamentalmente, las cosas fĂsicas en cuerpos de sensual
espiritualidad poética.<br />
<br />
The poetic numen that moves about this Neumeister Notebook seeks to
embody and acquire a voice by recording intimately the creative
experience of other artists (musicians, painters, writers, builders)
with whom it finds the most dissimilarâthough not openly
revealedâaffinities or complicities of life: islands, exiles... The
author, Carlota Caulfield, a unique voice within current Cuban poetry,
delivers here her daily living of artistic creation, which allows her,
at the end of the book, to transform into poetry the most everyday
objects around her: a tureen, a fruit bowl, a lamp. Moved by the human
bond implicit in all translation, she translates other arts in her
artâor her art in other artsâ, other lives in her lifeâor her life in
other livesâ, and, intrinsically, physical things in bodies of poetic
and sensual spirituality.<br />
<br />
â JesĂșs J. Barquet<br />
<br />
*<br />
<br />
Carlota Caulfield finds a simple everyday act of sipping a cup of coffee or eating a croissant gives inspiration. At the same time, the nothingness of one's ownself ââyou're the nothing of your other selfâ--finds inspiration in diverse sources such as jazz, theater, art, photography, architecture, film and literature. In En Cuaderno Neumeister / The Neumeister Notebook, the voices of memory play as masterfully in poems that explore intimate topics as they play in poems more abstract and philosophical. Under a surrealist waterfall of her dreams, Carlota Caulfield soaks up vibrant images and delivers the reader a singularly modern work. <br />
<br />
Carlota Caulfield, en la quotidiana naturalitat de tenir la tassa de cafĂš als llavis i prendreÂŽs un croissant, troba la inspiraciĂł. I a la vegada, el no-res del propi jo -ets el no-res del teu altre jo, diu- sÂŽalimenta de fonts tan diverses com el jazz, el teatre, l'art, la fotografia, l'arquitectura, la cinematografia i la literatura. En Cuaderno Neumeister / The Neumeister Notebook, les veus de la memĂČria juguen amb mestratge tant en aquells poemes de carĂ cter intimista com en els de tendĂšncia mĂ©s abstracta i filosĂČfica. Sota la cascada surrealista dels seus somnis, Carlota Caufield sÂŽenxopa d'imatges brillants i les ofereix al lector en una obra singularment moderna.<br />
<br />
Carlota Caulfield, en la cotidiana naturalidad de tener una taza de cafĂ© en los labios y tomarse un croissant, encuentra la inspiraciĂłn. Y a la vez, la nada del propio yo -eres la nada de tu otro yo, dice- se alimenta en fuentes tan diversas como el jazz, el teatro, el arte, la fotografĂa, la arquitectura, la cinematografĂa y la literatura. En Cuaderno Neumeister / The Neumeister Notebook, las voces de la memoria juegan con maestrĂa tanto en aquellos poemas de carĂĄcter intimista como en aquellos otros que tienden a lo abstracto y filosĂłfico. Bajo la cascada surrealista de sus sueños, Carlota Caulfield se empapa de imĂĄgenes brillantes y las ofrece al lector en una obra singularmente moderna.<br />
<br />
â TĂČnia Passola
hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-77485019305656071562016-05-21T20:00:00.000+01:002016-08-01T23:41:37.798+01:00hardPressed poetry workspace - Practical Writing Evolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
AUGUST HOLIDAY Tomorrow at the Urban Co-Op café, Mulgrave St. (Old Esso Station)</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Holiday all August Tuesday mornings, 10 to 11.30 Practical Writing Evolution </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
See you after the holidays! </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Access practical help and support for reading and writing in English</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Access practical help and support for your everyday writing needs: creative writing, form-filling, letters, notes and applications. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YAVHXQFGo7o/V0CrgIhXcvI/AAAAAAAAAE0/rToZL08uTcUaCBxs5n1SYUIEtWmFCwxQgCKgB/s1600/hardPressed%2Bpoetry%2Bworkspace.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YAVHXQFGo7o/V0CrgIhXcvI/AAAAAAAAAE0/rToZL08uTcUaCBxs5n1SYUIEtWmFCwxQgCKgB/s640/hardPressed%2Bpoetry%2Bworkspace.png" width="456" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<br />hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-58253203117871955782016-05-15T18:27:00.000+01:002016-05-15T22:32:10.166+01:00Review of Astonished Birds and Imaginary Gardens in the Irish University Review<div class="MsoNormal">
Two hardPressed titles, <i>Imaginary Gardens</i> by Billy Mills and <i>Astonished Birds/Cara, Jane, Bob and James </i>by Catherine Walsh, are reviewed by J.C.C. Mays in the new experimental Irish poetry issue of the <a href="http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/46/1" target="_blank">Irish University Review</a>. Here are four short quotes to give you a taste of the full essay.
<br />
<br />
<b>On <i>Imaginary Gardens</i>:</b><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
At the heart of this process is the relation between words and music: the placement of words as determined by their grammatical meaning and the different relation established by their sounds. The relationship can emphasise, destabilize, and co-exist in a multitude of ways that make up snatches of harmony âheard beyond / the earâs rangeâ</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
No page of text in this book will be entirely complete and the hundred pages overall enact a process like a film slowed down to its separate frames⊠A complete story contained in one frame of a poem or a faster projection would provide different kinds of satisfaction but both would override the point.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>On <i>Astonished Birds/Cara, Jane, Bob and James</i>:</b><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The pages forcefully challenge what they oppose, almost as if it was alive and might at any moment speak back; they make clearer what is not than what is, and the point about this poem is that the unspoken, controlling forces are at the edge, squeezed out, skewed.</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Irish poetry has always hidden its sharpest criticism under the mask of comedy ⊠and the present instance is distinguished by its genuine sympathy for a sick society. The four characters involved are pathetic, but also simply a hoot. If you werenât laughing, youâd want to cry. Thatâs a rare thing when itâs part of a larger argument about poetry as a model of consumption in a market economy that is fast consuming what it feeds.</blockquote>
<br /></div>
hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-24235316230211971162014-10-04T15:05:00.003+01:002014-10-04T15:05:57.544+01:00Poster Poems: ForgetfulnessOn the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/oct/03/poster-poems-forgetting-billy-mills" target="_blank">Guardian books blog</a> now. With poems by Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Hardy, Billy Collins, Austin Dobson, Shelley, Anne Stevenson, W.B. Yeats and Dannie Abse.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-64744804269395030152014-09-07T20:30:00.005+01:002014-09-07T20:30:51.274+01:00Poster Poems : SapphoOver on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/05/poster-poems-sappho-reinterpreted-billy-mills" target="_blank">Guardian Books</a> now; reinvent Sappho in your own words.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-1628710014118197632014-08-02T21:15:00.002+01:002014-08-02T21:15:28.513+01:00Poster Poems: CarsNow live over on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/01/poster-poems-cars-billy-mills" target="_blank">Guardian</a>. Discussing poems by George Oppen, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly, Dorothy Parker, Reginald O'Hare Gibson, James Dickey, Carl Shapiro and Kathleen Fraser.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-34954490872315132732014-07-06T19:51:00.002+01:002014-07-06T19:52:01.368+01:00Poster Poems: IslandsNow live on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/04/poster-poems-islands-yeats-hugh-macdiarmid" target="_blank">Guardian Books Blog</a>, discussing poems by Richard Murphy, Robert Browning, Yeats, EA Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Kate Llewellyn.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-12097411088529494162014-06-09T18:45:00.000+01:002014-06-09T18:45:25.952+01:00Poster Poems: LawnsOver on the<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/06/poster-poems-lawns" target="_blank"> GU books site now</a>. Discussing poems by Thomas Gray, Stephen Kenneth Kelen, Grace Bauer, Louis Simpson, Thomas Hard, Margaret Atwood, RL Stevenson, Joanne Burn, and Emily Dickinson. hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-29165092596686588492014-05-11T14:34:00.002+01:002014-05-11T14:34:52.337+01:00Poster Poems: Owls<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/may/02/poster-poems-owls-poetry-billy-mills" target="_blank">Now live on the GU site.</a> Discusses poems by Polly Atkin, Dorothy Hewett, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ted Hughes, George MacBeth, Edward Lear and Lorine Niedecker.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-4045426849175563062014-04-04T23:30:00.000+01:002014-04-04T23:30:23.406+01:00Junior Cert. History: An Open LetterDear All,<br /><br />It strikes me that perhaps many of you may know
some people who are interested in generating more interest and debate
around the topic of Junior Cert. History. <br /><br />I'm a writer
interested in history and History, with offspring studying History
at third level. It is doubtful that without Junior Cert. History as it
stands they would have realised their respective interests in their
subjects; as is the case, I suspect, with many others.<br /><br />Even
outside of any particular interest, I think the study of history at this
stage is important to educational, social and aesthetic development and
to understandings of active citizenship. <br /><br />I have made a
hashtag <b>#JuniorCertHistory</b> on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter </a>- please take a look, post
comments & links, and pass it around. I am concerned that the whole
thing has not been garnering more significant attention, in a more
useful way, considering the people who have been speaking up on behalf
of the subject. This needs to run on social media as actively as
possible to keep it in the news, so to speak. Who can contact history
teachers, lecturers, museum staff, library staff? Is there already a
petition? If not , why not? <br /><br />Business investing in the promotion
of basic computer literacies, coding, in Irish State Education is quite
short-sighted with relatively terminal short-term aims if it can not
recognise the worth of maintaining this history cycle; the empirical
knowledge and skills it builds alongside more tangential ones
are all equally necessary further on. I don't think many people
here envisage educating as if only for industry as it stands now,
particularly as industry and the factory floor will continue to change
rapidly as all areas are augmented by continuing technological
development. <br /><br />Removing Junior Cert. History or reducing
its significance is a retrogressive, dependent, and badly thought-out
step, overly-focused on relatively short-term results for
a technological business sector which would be biting off its own nose
to spite its face in the longer term. <br />
<br />A sustainable technological
sector in the longer-term does not just need more maths and science
experts and more workers coming through, very importantly it needs many
kinds of skilled researchers, analysts, archivists, knowledge experts,
writers, thinkers. <br /><br />Undermining the input of the Arts and
Humanities in our education system any further would be detrimental to
any real progression in the furtherance of innovation, entrepreneurship,
invention; whether that be in education, art, technology, the sciences,
business. Better to invest more in early education, primarily first
three years developmental stages and further to that, early
years literacy and numeracy skills.<br /><br />Certainly there is a strong
case for introducing coding and programming skills as optional
modules for both Junior Cert. and Leaving Cert. cycles. I do not think
they should be, or need to be mandatory. However this should not occur
at the expense of existing academic subjects.<br /><br />Best,<br />Catherine Walsh.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-14112029438568468262014-03-12T20:19:00.002+00:002014-03-12T20:19:40.807+00:00Poster Poems: TreesNow live on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/mar/07/poster-poems-trees-nature-gardens" target="_blank">Guardian Books</a> site; a verse celebration of all things arboreal. hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-66151560355276294092014-02-16T21:42:00.003+00:002014-02-16T21:42:49.419+00:00Poster Poems: WindLive now on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/feb/07/poster-poems-wind-storms-atlantic-billy-mills" target="_blank">Guardian books site</a>; an invitation to post poems apt to the weather.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-27033447426699009892014-01-05T17:16:00.000+00:002014-01-05T17:16:20.448+00:00Poster Poems 100A celebration of the previous 99 is now live on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jan/03/poster-poems-100th-blog-anniversaries" target="_blank">Guardian Books site</a>. Why not visit and leave a poem?hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-47329499916442237472013-12-10T21:00:00.003+00:002013-12-10T21:00:53.408+00:00Poster Poems: HeroesLive on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/dec/06/poster-poems-heroes-billy-mills" target="_blank">Guardian website</a> now. Linking to poems by Milton, Marvell, Sassoon, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and Anon (Beowulf).hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-46501518383545109552013-11-01T19:50:00.002+00:002013-11-01T19:50:54.049+00:00New Poster PoemsOn the topic of villains, featuring Milton, Dante, Chaucer, Pound, Sassoon, David Wojahn and WD Snodgrass. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/nov/01/poster-poems-villains-billy-mills" target="_blank">Live on the Guardian books blog now</a>.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-23588768339876716822013-09-09T20:19:00.002+01:002013-09-09T20:19:08.777+01:00Poster Poems: OriginsNow live over on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/06/poster-poems-origins-your-poetry" target="_blank">Guardian books site</a>. Pop by and add a poem.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914995835027262380.post-73119264797218059762013-08-09T21:35:00.002+01:002013-08-09T21:35:58.829+01:00Poster Poems: Found poemsNow over at the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/aug/09/poster-poems-found-poetry-cutup-collage" target="_blank">Guardian</a>, WCW, Cage, Howard Nemeriv, Reznikoff, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Burroughs and more.hardPressed poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299038892858081207noreply@blogger.com0