Jerm Curtin

Thanks for responding, Andy.
Art as a source of practical advice: among all its other functions, why not? It has certainly helped me at difficult moments.

‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?

Such a moving article by Anne Enright, mourning her mother and clearing out her house.
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Different Speeds, Same Furies There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In...

Just noticed this post.
I had a wonderful summer rereading all twelve. If you need convincing, Perry Anderson's essays make a great case for them.
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Dear RoI folks. Please, go vote today. Do it for us, who aren't allowed to, despite birth in the island and a passport just like yours.

A comment from Spain, where fascism is deeply entrenched: I suppose everyone in Ireland realises that these two events are two sides of the same thing #aras #dublinriots
(Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)

The Notes of Patrick Modiano, by Peter De Jonge A young writer finds his voice on the radio

Wonderfully entertaining portrait of Patrick Modiano as a young songwriter
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Irlandés, pero vivo en Badajoz en el barrio de San Roque. Me gusta el enfoque que das a la política, las lenguas y las tradiciones.

YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)

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🚨The European Commission want to roll back vital environmental protections under the Trojan Horse of “simplification”

We have just 10 days to tell them #HandsOFFNature

Their “Red Tape” is our nature, our home, our right!

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Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI.

He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.

But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.

ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.

“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”

This will kill people.

Lo que está pasando ahora ya lo vivimos en Galicia antes, el resultado, 17 años de gobiernos del PP.

I read these two poems on this @madridlitmag.bsky.social podcast where Ellen Merryweather asks me about my chapbook Cacti & other poems @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Un marroquí con 3 hijos, trabajo y que lleva más de 20 años en España pierde la nacionalidad porque “no sabe leer ni escribir el español y sí el árabe” El interesado no ha acreditado el suficiente grado de integración para la concesión de nacionalidad, a pesar de demostrar arraigo laboral y familiar.

Que le denieguen un trámite a un trabajador porque no sabe leer ni escribir es clasismo repugnante y miserable. Y sí, tener la nacionalidad del país donde uno vive no debería ser más que un trámite. noticiastrabajo.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/un-...

Narrative Poetry, with Jerm Curtin The Madrid Review · Episode

Our latest podcast is up now on Spotify. Ellie is chatting with Irish poet @jermcurtin.bsky.social who also reads from his work. #spotify #poetryreading #poetry #podcast #poetrypodcast
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Lea Ypi on the left’s ‘dangerous illusion that getting tough on migration can win back support’ - Voxeurop In this conversation scholar Lea Ypi reflects on how progressives can and must address issues related to citizenship, rights, class, culture and solidarity in the context of migration and inequality.

We've lost the ability to articulate a structural critique of capitalism. We've stopped talking about the material roots of injustice, about inequalities that are produced not by cultural difference but by position in social relations of production @leaypi.bsky.social
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Spanish ultra-Catholic press suggesting it might be time for a military coup in Spain. bsky.app/profile/econ...

No country for old poets? Barry Hill’s Lamb is a work of vitality and rejuvenation Barry Hill’s new poetry collecion Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections on birth and love.

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An interview from @robmclennan.bsky.social's blog. I give some background to my chapbook Cacti & other poems, published by Southword editions @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Grateful to Rob for this.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jerm Curtin Jerm Curtin grew up in rural Ireland and has lived in Spain for many years. His chapbook, Cacti & other poems , was published in December 2...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jerm Curtin / @jermcurtin.bsky.social ;
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Protecting sprat means saving a whole ecosystem, from whales and dolphins to local businesses
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Paul Durcan

Goodbye to him.

From ‘The Hay-Carrier’:

“Have you ever saved hay in Mayo in the rain?
Have you ever made hay in Mayo in the sun?
Have you ever carried above your head a haycock on a pitchfork?
. . .
For the great gate of night stands painted red—
And all of heaven lies waiting to be fed.”

*Durcan's
The corrector doesn't know Durcan, apparently.

Duncan's work is so vast and so important everyone will have their own favourite. This is mine.

Acclaimed poet Paul Durcan dies aged 80 Poet who more than 20 books was awarded the Lifetime Achievement at the Irish Book Awards in 2014

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O Día das Letras Galegas de 2025 é unha fermosa homenaxe ao canto e a lírica popular. Este ano adícase ás mulleres cantareiras, recoñécese a quen mantivo a tradición desde as lareiras da cociña e o traballo no campo.

A poesía oral crece pola revolución das invisibles. Por máis cantareiras! 🩵

Glad to share, Matthew. I enjoyed both books very much.

Two lovely books by @roguestrands.bsky.social English, living and working post-Brexit in Spain, Matthew distils the complexity of his situation in spare, deeply-felt, attractive poems. Well worth reading.

Nos anos 90. Viñan a Lugo dunha aldea (non me acordo do nome) e, aínda que falaba eu mal o galego, entendía ben pola miña experiencia propia o que estaban a sufrir, non só lingüísticamente, por ser do medio rural.

Que noxo dan. Sempre con o mesmo conto.
O meu bautismo na política lingüística do estado espanyol foron uns nenos da Terra Chá que me pediron axuda con o inglés xa que a profe só lles falaba en castelán, e como eran moi pequenos non o entendían.