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'Alma Redemptoris Mater' by Kelly Michels
Kelly Michels reads 'Alma Redemptoris Mater' from her debut collection, American Anthem (2024, The Gallery Press).
‘After spending a week sleeping on the floor / of a crack house she comes home dragging / a heap of bones.’ So begins Kelly Michels’ sometimes shocking debut as the author remembers observing her mother. Blending lyric and narrative modes the dominant strands of American Anthem focus on the tragedies, both personal and national, of the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects of addiction and of gun violence in America where the author grew up.
This is an urgent, necessary book, a severe indictment of the mammoth pharmaceutical companies and of the merchants and proponents of arms.
American Anthem proclaims a new voice in Irish poetry. It is an outstanding, bold and brave first collection.
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Kelly Michels relocated to Ireland from the United States in 2019 and completed her PhD at UCD. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Tampa Review, Best New Poets and New Ohio Review. She has received the Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize from 92nd Street ‘Y’, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Dublin.
‘After spending a week sleeping on the floor / of a crack house she comes home dragging / a heap of bones.’ So begins Kelly Michels’ sometimes shocking debut as the author remembers observing her mother. Blending lyric and narrative modes the dominant strands of American Anthem focus on the tragedies, both personal and national, of the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects of addiction and of gun violence in America where the author grew up.
This is an urgent, necessary book, a severe indictment of the mammoth pharmaceutical companies and of the merchants and proponents of arms.
American Anthem proclaims a new voice in Irish poetry. It is an outstanding, bold and brave first collection.
gallerypress.com/product/american-anthem/
Kelly Michels relocated to Ireland from the United States in 2019 and completed her PhD at UCD. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Tampa Review, Best New Poets and New Ohio Review. She has received the Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize from 92nd Street ‘Y’, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Dublin.
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Alvy Carragher reads the title poem from her collection What Remains the Same published in April 2024 by The Gallery Press. www.gallerypress.com
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Way to go Kelly!!!
Everything is Going to be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the hand unbidden and the hidden source is the watchful heart. The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right. Derek Mahon, from Selected Poems
Lovely poem, lovely recitation, Justin!
Excellent. Really good. So nice someone Irish won it. Definitely worth while checking out her poetry.
This is one for squeaking door. Everything is going to be alright. Valiant.
Hế lu kênh
A poem for our dark days
Lovely, I have been in those moments and this brings them back to life.
So beautiful!
Hurray for the Gallery Press
Thank you thank you thank you.
You're welcome!
So good, so heartfelt and with so much resonance. My favourite is ‘All Yours’ a poem set in the Ivy Gardens
Listening to this over and over these days.
Regardless of how one might feel about the style of reading given here, or about some of the other lines, the line "but there is no need to go into that" is so utterly valueless. It's like a politician's soundbite put into verse.
Yes, it is a valueless line and could be thought of as a cop out for a poem but it does also tell about a legitimate attitude of resigning yourself to it all. Personally, I find the last line the worst in this appealing poem. It isn't going to be all right in fact, if we think about the millions who have died or lost people they care about this year: many long before they were supposed to die in old age.
RIP.
Lovely Justin. Thanks so much for sharing. It would be great to hear you read live again sometime! I remember fondly your support with our school's 'Poetry Cafe' event.
RIP cousin
RIP
RIP to a great poet
RIP😔
Thank you Derek for this lovely poem, I agree with you "Every is going to be alright ".Rest in peace now AMEN.
RIP Derek Mahon. His voice still clear and crisp and true.
Rip, lovely words
RIP Sir 💚
Really enjoyable half hour. Great poets and poems. I’m really taken by a quote from Kerry Hardie.”When a poets work enters you very deeply It’s sparks off whatever is your own voice”.
One of the worst ‘poems’ I’ve ever encountered. The laziness is offensive. The clumsy repetition unforgivable.
Your comment is naive at best. Just spend a little time exploring poetry, and eventually, you will realise what a gem this is. Your laziness is understandable if you have not read poetry if you have...
padraig65 You wrote: “ Your comment is naive at best.” Your opinion is arrogant, ill informed, founded upon baseless assumptions and illogical at best. “Just spend a little time exploring poetry,” I’ve been reading and writing poetry since I was ten years old, and won a junior eisteddfod prize at that age - in Welsh which was my second language. “and eventually, you will realise what a gem this is.” No I won’t. And it’s not a “gem”, it doesn’t even qualify as a turd, but is in fact demonstrably a dingleberry of lazy verse. “Your laziness is understandable if you have not read poetry if you have...” Tripe. More idiotic assumptions based upon your own brain farts. Among thousands of poems, I read the great Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ at 14. Having grown up with a father who spent most of his time in the Western desert operating behind enemy lines, and a grandfather who fought in many of the major battles of the Somme, and was among the Canadians who took Vimy Ridge, I was appalled. I believed it was my duty to be so. There was no space in my world for such attitudes which my young mind perceived as defeatism. But I volunteered for service in Rhodesia at 18, and saw human conflict, close up, at its most raw. Then, upon coming down from the turmoil, both physical and mental, I came to understand, and much more importantly, respect and LOVE Owen. His wisdom sears hand in hand with his integrity and bravery. Learning the full story of that work, and of his demise soon after, makes it all the more poignant. Many others have spoken of these emotions since. A poignant example for the current situation is Martin Neimöller’s ‘First They Came...’ Mahon utterly fails to challenge ideas or reader, choosing instead LAZY LAZY repetition, boredom inducing self pitying self reporting, and much worse, deception and contradictions, meaning his words fail to even convey an intent to be honest - with himself, never mind the reader. Wallow in its putrid drivel if you want, but don’t pretend you know more about poetry than someone you’ve never met. That THING is proof of the dumbing down of everything, including poetry over the last 100 years. Modern exceptions are rare. Kate Tempest’s ‘What We Came After’ is one. She tears wisdom from the bard, and, like Owen, brings tears to my eyes with that last line - every time. Offensive I found that THING Pinned to fence Printed with poor linespacing In the wrong font Encapsulated in plastic... Appropriately It bleated fake hope From behind self obsessed laziness Paraded as virtue Repetition to fill space In a head lost in clouds - Poking out of deception On encountering ‘Everything is Going to be All Right’ by Derek Mahon - on my way to the bank, from the last free parking, a mile from the city. “Then you KNOW that hell is empty, ‘cause all the devils are HERE!”
@@G58 Morning, I've never read poetry before, who would you recommend? My gut instinct is telling me that its not Derek Mahon.
Ross Lindsay Good afternoon. Thank you for your response and question. Poetry is very subjective. The above comments are evidence of this. There are great poets. There are famous poets. There are great poems. There are famous poems. I just read everything, and find what works for me. There’s also poetry in SOME modern music. Joanna Newsome’s early work and Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics are very different, but both are really poems put to music. This might surprise you, but if you read the lyrics to ‘Born in The USA’ you will not only not find the flag waving rock anthem most people assume it to be, but you will find one of the New Jersey bard’s many anti war stories in verse form. It’s also a biography of American youth, an actual life story of many, and possibly the greatest, most succinct movie script of all time. I personally believe that the very best poems come from extremis, honesty and innocence. So Browning’s ‘The Patriot’ and ‘Incident of The French Camp’ speak to me, as do the Great War poets of 1914-19 era. Wilfred Owen is by far the greatest, speaking truth from a personal place of extreme internal anguish, but also anger. He cut to the very core of the lie used to make wars happen. I’m a straight guy, but I love Wilfred Owen. I feel honoured to have his words in my head. Yes, Dulce et Decorum est is a collaborative effort which would have been censored if it was released by Owen during the war. But that speaks more solidly of its honesty. War requires collaboration between men and women to survive. The same is no less true in finding and sharing your truth. If you want to find the purest poetry, ask children, as young as you can find them, to write their inner thoughts. THERE you will find poetry with more honesty than any adult heart can bear to hear or read without emotion. Their clumsiness is an integral part of the process. It’s everywhere my friend, even on the subway walls. Peace
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A wonderful poem and reminds me of ...."The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new..." - Murphy - S Beckett
" The sun rises in spite of everything..."
A beautiful poem....much needed in the world right now!
Galánta, a Chaitríona.
Buíochas leat a Chaitríona :)
Oh what a treat, John!!!! And how lovely to see you! - 'full tilt/among the folk songs' .
Terrific, John!
Beautiful. Love the audience. It was a real surprise, funny but haunting too...
Bravo!
Derek Mahon 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' 1979 How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the hand unbidden and the hidden source is the watchful heart. The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right.
Such a wonderful reading Recently on national news Ireland [ RTE ] twitter.com/i/status/1243669161068376064
Ever since I heard Robert Lowell reciting his own work many years ago , I've been struck by how often poets read themselves aloud in a kind of flat monotone ; it's almost akin to embarrassement. Let poets write and the actors recite.
I don't hear embarrassment .. I hear the beauty already spoken in the words..
@@gurubody I agree entirely Lindsay. I think it has been read wonderfully well, authentic and deep from within the soul. An unfair and unkind generalisation Sean [ and I do agree that poets are not always the best readers of their own work. However, I disagree in this case - I hear no embarrassment here just empathy and concern for fellow human beings coping with the sometimes absurd nature of the human condition ]. RTE recently ended the news with this reading, poignant in our difficult times. All the very best to both of you and stay well. twitter.com/i/status/1243669161068376064
See comment in reply to Lindsay- Kind Regards
Sean MacCartan hell no. actors see it as a chance to express themselves. this misses the point. poems are for the *reader to express themselves. poets read in a quiet and undramatic way for a reason. the words are drama enough.
@@dharmabam Exactly
I enjoyed this reading very much. 'Everything is going to be all right '.
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