Continuing on the theme of 19th century masters (an earlier post this week featured Paul Cézanne) here’s a poem by Irish poet Derek Mahon (whose work was featured previously here) about Vincent Van Gogh: A Portrait of the Artist (for Colin Middleton) Shivering in the darkness Of pits, slag-heaps, beetroot fields, I gasp for light […]
Derek Mahon
I’d Pick This One Not Once But Many Times
Ganesh, Southern India, 2008 Homage to Goa The ceiling fans in the house go round and round as if to whisk us off to a different sky. I squirt Deet at a thin mosquito whine; gods chuckle softly from a garden shrine, fruit ripen in the gloaming without a sound. Shiva, Parvati and Ganesh the […]