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Arts administrator and part-time lecturer, Alan Garvey has been published in various magazines and anthologies and regularly gives readings around Ireland. He received grants from the Irish Arts Council to read in Toronto and Newfoundland, and work in Budapest. He has three collections of poetry published by Lapwing Publications, Belfast: Herself in Air (2006), Learning To Crawl (2008) and Terror Háza (2009). He was awarded a MA in Creative Writing.
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SETTING THE FIRE
Before shovelling the remains of last night's fire into a paper bag I remove the fireplace fret, setting it to one side. The shovel scrapes against cinder block, a sound to set the teeth on edge were it not so familiar; fine mustard-coloured ash churning with once-proud and energetic coals – now no more than porous charcoal pebbles. Naked flames played lambent along their shining edges, prying their way between nuggets while I tinkered with the poker – looking for trouble, my father would say, for a man playing with fire will surely be burnt by it.
My father is a man content to set a fire and leave it be until i
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Sea and Sacred
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'The landscape strikes the notion of him…'
The landscape strikes the notion of him,
a hand that draws its fingers into a fist
where headlands and coves breathe him in.
Waves unfurl their broken worlds, clouds' lost
scrolls obscure this lonely man who clings
to a cliff; who craves a return to the nest
of himself from which he crept. Wind sings
of a cliff-top within arm's reach but legs
rebel against the brain beating frantic wings
to soar above spear-head rocks: it begs
him, a body crumpled in heather, to be free
of memory in the glare of the sun, dregs
of his ego drift as puffs of steam to sea –
I am cliché
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Domesticities 1
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APRIL ON THE MALL
is the time and place to be in love.
Blossom's pink and frothing waves swash
in sympathy to Lombard St.'s strains.
Though it feels unseasonal, white at your face,
manna falling free from a few feet above –
consider the crush of wedding parties
who pass and how blossom is like confetti.
We may start late but we needn't be last.
This window's reflection frames a sunbeam
as it sneaks past The Odd Couple poster stuck
to the theatre's mahogany doors where a warm
breeze sweeps blossom into a gold and pink
whirlpool on the linoleum floor.
ROUNDABOUT
It happens when approaching roundabouts'
whirr of signs I
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It is great that you made an account, and I am glad to be your first watcher. ^^ I am looking forward to seeing some of your works you post.
And thank you for visiting my page! ♥
And thank you for visiting my page! ♥
Thanks very much, Gaea, sorry for the delay in replying - I find myself falling occasionally between a number of different stools! LOL FB still occupies most of my time but I'm on MySpace and a Ning network too - this is the first time I've been on DA since I visited your page and set up my own.
Speaking of your page, you've posted a fine body of work here, with many absolutely amazing images across the different disciplines.
I'm afraid I've never made anything much of my own photography - it's always been more of a hobby along with DIY and woodwork, just to take me away from working with words on a page all the time. Which is what I'll be posting more of here and more often, hopefully!
Thanks again for your best wishes and interest
Speaking of your page, you've posted a fine body of work here, with many absolutely amazing images across the different disciplines.
I'm afraid I've never made anything much of my own photography - it's always been more of a hobby along with DIY and woodwork, just to take me away from working with words on a page all the time. Which is what I'll be posting more of here and more often, hopefully!
Thanks again for your best wishes and interest