tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post132015606385171260..comments2024-03-29T09:22:57.031+00:00Comments on Declan Burke: Crime Poetry: It’s The New BlackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-54952600954889050442008-01-17T15:33:00.000+00:002008-01-17T15:33:00.000+00:00Cheers for the mention Declan. I'm looking forward...Cheers for the mention Declan. I'm looking forward to Stephen Kennedys play on the night. Hopefully it'll be jammers!!Colm Keeganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08415603898882232950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-50846937610193740702008-01-17T06:04:00.000+00:002008-01-17T06:04:00.000+00:00There's a small, but particularly good, stream of ...There's a small, but particularly good, stream of Crime Verse in these parts - coming in no small way out of the local Sisters in Crime Chapter. One of my favourite books last year was Dorothy Porter's El Dorado which was a crime fiction, verse novel. Startlingly good I have to say - for a small taste - it starts:<BR/><BR/>The little girl's<BR/>dead hand<BR/>is sticking stiffly<BR/>up<BR/>as if reaching<BR/>to grab an angel's<BR/>foot.<BR/><BR/>Detective Inspector Bill Buchanan<BR/>puts out his gloved<BR/>hand<BR/>in the dead foul air<BR/>and touches the tiny<BR/>heaven-stretched fingers<BR/><BR/>It goes on to be funny, sad and tell an entire tale - great book if you can ever get your hands on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-89690953607789811362008-01-16T16:18:00.000+00:002008-01-16T16:18:00.000+00:00Many thanks for plugging this event, Dec! I am go...Many thanks for plugging this event, Dec! I am going to limp my venerable old ass down to the Jimmy Joyce Centre this Saturday, and plan on having me a good time unless the doormen are keeping out the ugly and unsavory. (The no-necked bastards....)<BR/><BR/>Colm has his own blog at http://theblogsthejob.blogspot.com/ and one of his crime stories can be found in the 2006 anthology called Caught in Amber. Worth tracking down!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com