Chris Murray

Thanks Sam 🍃

“And her yellow music caught in the throat of birds” by C Murray And her yellow music caught in the throat of birds   I waited a minute on the wind, on your roof, outside.   She had been awaiting me in the middle of the day, having come warm over those seas to f…

'And her yellow music caught in the throat of birds,
agus a ceol buí a thógail i scornach na h’éanaithe.'

poethead.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/a...

(I wrote this in Irish originally, but only retained one line of it)
#Archive #TwelveYears

Presser on AI Labelling digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

European Commission launch of Code of Practice of AI generated content: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

#AI #AIPolicy #IntellectualRights

Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

T. S. Eliot, 1934

Reed Songs I-IV were first published in A New Ulster #7 (2013) and in 'Cycles' (Lapwing Press, 2013) ia801008.us.archive.org/17/items/ree... [PDF]

I archived them at @archive.org archive.org/details/reed...

Poem of the week: Morning star A new work by Chris Murray

Morning star – The Irish Times (2021) www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

#MorningStar #Venus #Winter #ArchivePoems

Issue 20 - One Rip by Steven DaLuz Contents Joan Colby | Amy Gottlieb | Betty Adcock | Megan Merchant | Taylor Edmonds | Margarita Serafimova | Meg Eden | Rasaq Malik | María Luisa Arroyo | Tina Kelley | Richard Foe...

winter street from One Jacar Press one.jacarpress.com/issue-20/#Ch...

Image: Rip by Steven DaLuz

Emily Dickinson

And here you come, with a cup of tea
Wreathed in steam.
The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.
You hand me two children, two roses.

The very first Sylvia Plath poem that I read was "Kindness",
allpoetry.com/poem/8498417...

#SylviaPlath #Poets #Kindness #OTD

Anne Carson, Decreation

Hope you got sorted, all my tech changed itself. I had to google how to change my analogue watch, and I haven't a notion how to do a heavy wooden clock that was a legacy.

I did my watch, adding a couple of minutes, I like to be ahead of myself.

I kiss my hand
To the stars, lovely-asunder
Starlight, wafting him out of it; and
Glow, glory in thunder;

Gerard Manley Hopkins from 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'

#Images #Poets #Hopkins #Kissmyhandtothedappled-with-damsomwest

b/w newsprint analog collage on black construction paper (middle left the philosopher Simone Weil staring at the camera a rifle slung over her right shoulder, top middle-right a pair of black jeaned legs walking away, bottom right the word 'pronostico' [forecast, prediction] laid vertical) March 2024

love Simone

Image of Gerard Manley Hopkins

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation

#Hopkins #FavouritePoets

Just because Clegg has never experience a thought.

AI should be treated the same as plagiarism, end of story. it takes me 2+ years to do a book.

Do cheap elsewhere.

Emily Dickinson

so I wrote to the Minister about the selection criteria this morning.

Yeah, Ok. I agree.

I am coming from writing and have spent years just wondering at the toxic influences in the writing world, that have stagnated a teeny little pool. We see the same publishers being rewarded and it trickles down into bursaries, fellowships, media etc.

its bullshit

The basis for selection should be on artistic and cultural merit.
This occurs in the artist exemption (through the tax system) and in the BIA. it does not occur in other award opportunities where the same people are constantly awarded.

The #BIA must remain free from influence

I don't know the distribution. I am in the scheme as a poet/essayist. I am just very concerned that the selection criteria stay as neutral and random as is possible.

(untainted by influence - cos that's a shit show)

Chaplet a lambda print by Alice Maher

'Chaplet' poethead.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/c... by C. Murray

'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

#Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet

Selecting for the Basic Income for the Arts must remain random and on the basis of certain criteria.

I believe that the criteria for awarding artist exemption and BIA are fairer than the arts council.

It is based on cultural merit in the tax system and that extends into the BIA.

Not who your publisher has dinner with/ blows a line with.

The tax exemption scheme is fair.
The BIA is fair.

I agree about random selection once the criteria are met, because *some* artists funding schemes have been circle-jerking for years.

You just have to look at who is getting funding and follow their lists of, e.g, writers/publishers etc etc.

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget, www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

A capture of the poem "Periphery" which has too many characters to fit into a bluesky post ... it is about wing-settling birds in peripheral hedges.

"Periphery" from Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020)

They, like all creatures, being made For the shovel and worm, Ransacked their perishable minds and found Pattern and form And with their own hands quarried from hard words A figure in which secret things confide. Eavan Boland, from “The Poets”

They, like all creatures, being made
For the shovel and worm,
Ransacked their perishable minds and found
Pattern and form
And with their own hands quarried from hard words
A figure in which secret things confide.

Eavan Boland, from “The Poets”
#poetry #writer