Poetry Corner listing
The weekly Poetry Corner section in the Clare Champion is a Clare Champion/Clare Three-Leggèd Stool Poets initiative which launched in the 28th October 2011 edition of the paper. Clare Three-Leggèd Stool Poets have full editorial control over the poetic content by way of a three-person editorial panel drawn from members of the group.
Following is a full listing of featured poets (48) and poems (193) in reverse order by date.
Edition | Poet | Poem(s) | No. Lines |
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3 Dec 2015 | Murdoch Lothian | Cogito Ergo Sum | 15 |
20 Nov 2015 | Tom McElligott | Bidding Goodnight | 30 |
13 Nov 2015 | Arthur Watson | Hallowe'en Tryst | 39 |
30 Oct 2015 | Mike Douse | Good Night | 8 |
23 Oct 2015 | Brian Mooney | Autumn Love | 25 |
16 Oct 2015 | Karen J. McDonnell | At Carraunroe | 28 |
2 Oct 2015 | Arthur Watson | The Matador of Truth | 10 |
18 Sep 2015 | Mary Ellen Fean | Fortress | 21 |
11 Sep 2015 | Brendan O'Beirne | Poem for Imelda May | 15 |
28 Aug 2015 | Arthur Watson | Transubstantiation | 28 |
21 Aug 2015 | Patrick Stack | Expiration | 8 |
7 Aug 2015 | Mike Douse | Words Can Start Fires | 23 |
31 Jul 2015 | Murdoch Lothian | After Image | 24 |
24 Jul 2015 | Mary Ellen Fean | The Beach at Lagarde | 15 |
10 Jul 2015 | Brian Mooney | The Drowning | 38 |
3 Jul 2015 | Mike Douse | Reliabilities | 25 |
26 Jun 2015 | Sinead Nic Sioda | For Sylvia (corrected version) | 17 |
19 Jun 2015 | Ruth Marshall | Poetry Knit Prayer | 25 |
12 Jun 2015 | Arthur Watson | Swans in a Blizzard | 15 |
5 Jun 2015 | Martin Vernon | Kilrush Co. Clare 20 Years Ago | 47 |
22 May 2015 | Sinead Nic Sioda | For Sylvia | 16 |
8 May 2015 | Patrick Stack | Dharma | 8 |
1 May 2015 | Edward O'Dwyer | The Memory of It | 33 |
20 Mar 2015 | Arthur Watson | Making Light | 57 |
6 Mar 2015 | Arthur Watson | Sanctuary for Scapegoats | 42 |
27 Feb 2015 | Arthur Watson | Heart-throb | 29 |
13 Feb 2015 | Patrick Stack | Recollection | 8 |
6 Feb 2015 | Nicola Griffin | Endings | 12 |
26 Dec 2014 | Arthur Watson | A Heart within a Heart | 28 |
19 Dec 2014 | Susie Harty | Summer Evening | 24 |
5 Dec 2014 | Tom McElligott | Old Age Gestures | 38 |
28 Nov 2014 | Nicola Griffin | Crossing Places | 12 |
14 Nov 2014 | Mary Ellen Fean | All Souls | 15 |
31 Oct 2014 | Arthur Watson | Why are Witches? | 36 |
17 Oct 2014 | Sean Scully | Last Meal | 26 |
19 Sep 2014 | Caroline Bracken | Done Deal | 18 |
12 Sep 2014 | Mike Douse | In Memoriam | 31 |
5 Sep 2014 | Mary Madec | If Salt Loses Its Taste | 28 |
29 Aug 2014 | Mari Maxwell | Tuam Elegy | 33 |
22 Aug 2014 | Doireann Ni Ghriofa | Grit | 14 |
15 Aug 2014 | Arthur Watson | For the Time Being | 26 |
8 Aug 2014 | Sean Scully | Sunset on the Moors | 21 |
1 Aug 2014 | Mike Douse | Poem in Puntland | 38 |
25 Jul 2014 | Caroline Bracken | Galtee Mountain Girl | 24 |
18 Jul 2014 | Brian Mooney | The Drowning | 38 |
20 Jun 2014 | Karen J. McDonnell | Lady of Title Lunatic | 20 |
23 May 2014 | Arthur Watson | The Party Animal | 37 |
9 May 2014 | Patrick Stack | The Dance is Wild | 5 |
2 May 2014 | Doireann Ni Ghriofa | Summer, 1955 | 11 |
18 Apr 2014 | Martin Vernon | Post Office Field, Ennis | 31 |
11 Apr 2014 | Mary Ellen Fean | Derry 1972 | 20 |
4 Apr 2014 | Mike Douse | Some Father's Son | 36 |
28 Mar 2014 | Arthur Watson | A Blow-in on St Patrick's Day | 44 |
21 Mar 2014 | Eve Golden Woods | Silvermines | 36 |
14 Mar 2014 | Mary Ellen Fean | Storm Damage | 22 |
7 Mar 2014 | Patrick Stack | In Ganymede | 25 |
28 Feb 2014 | Arthur Watson | The Rooks of Ennistymon | 12 |
21 Feb 2014 | Donald Gardner | The Glittering Sea | 24 |
14 Feb 2014 | Arthur Watson | The Celebrants | 14 |
7 Feb 2014 | Karen J. McDonnell | Excavations at the Temple | 24 |
31 Jan 2014 | Eve Golden Woods | Winter '06 | 45 |
24 Jan 2014 | Fred Johnston | What Governs Us | 18 |
24 Jan 2014 | Fred Johnston | Insult | 12 |
10 Jan 2014 | Arthur Watson | The Christmas Tree's Message to Man | 42 |
13 Dec 2013 | Knute Skinner | A Useful Bench | 29 |
6 Dec 2013 | Eve Golden Woods | Autumn in the Green | 26 |
29 Nov 2013 | Mike Douse | Great-Uncle Arthur and the Blitz | 12 |
22 Nov 2013 | Patrick Stack | Healing | 24 |
15 Nov 2013 | Arthur Watson | Strangers in the Night | 23 |
8 Nov 2013 | Dominic Lysaght | Home Is Where the Heart Is | 13 |
1 Nov 2013 | Mary Ellen Fean | Arrow | 15 |
25 Oct 2013 | Mike Douse | Acceptance | 16 |
18 Oct 2013 | Brendan O'Beirne | Lyric No. 9 | 14 |
18 Oct 2013 | Brendan O'Beirne | Lost in November Rains | 12 |
11 Oct 2013 | Arthur Watson | The Commutation | 12 |
11 Oct 2013 | Arthur Watson | Postscript to 'The Commutation' | 14 |
4 Oct 2013 | Frank Golden | Poetry is a Blood Sport | 26 |
27 Sep 2013 | Karen J. McDonnell | Annie (For Annie McCarrick) | 25 |
27 Sep 2013 | Karen J. McDonnell | In Memoriam (On the death of Seamus Heaney) | 3 |
20 Sep 2013 | Noel Mulqueen | Road to Tory Pier | 17 |
13 Sep 2013 | Patrick Stack | Lament for Viking Dublin | 9 |
13 Sep 2013 | Patrick Stack | "The sadness of evening is upon me" | 7 |
30 Aug 2013 | Martin Vernon | Lying Fallow | 25 |
30 Aug 2013 | Martin Vernon | Playing God | 12 |
23 Aug 2013 | Arthur Watson | The Power of Speech | 9 |
23 Aug 2013 | Arthur Watson | To Come of Age | 15 |
23 Aug 2013 | Arthur Watson | Change | 12 |
9 Aug 2013 | Ines Bouhannani | Pieta | 21 |
26 Jul 2013 | Knute Skinner | Rain Today | 12 |
26 Jul 2013 | Knute Skinner | Curtain Time | 28 |
19 Jul 2013 | Peter Kay | Moves in the Air | 36 |
28 Jun 2013 | Patrick Stack | The Parting | 24 |
21 Jun 2013 | Arthur Watson | Un | 16 |
7 Jun 2013 | Mike Douse | Second Childhood | 28 |
31 May 2013 | Z.G. Tomaszewski | Heron | 15 |
10 May 2013 | Joe Healy | Rhythm of the Scythe | 32 |
3 May 2013 | Mary Ellen Fean | Student Jailed for Reading Poem | 24 |
19 Apr 2013 | Claire Saalbach | Holding My Tongue | 6 |
19 Apr 2013 | Claire Saalbach | Closed Minds | 12 |
12 Apr 2013 | Patrick Stack | Pantoum | 28 |
5 Apr 2013 | Frank Golden | The Men of Clare Now Drink Their Porter on the Palisades | 27 |
22 Mar 2013 | Mike Douse | Buried Truths | 21 |
15 Mar 2013 | Martin Vernon | Creativity | 21 |
8 Mar 2013 | Jinny Thomas | Spider | 15 |
8 Mar 2013 | Jinny Thomas | Cabbage | 19 |
1 Mar 2013 | Brian Mooney | extract from The Caoineadh Revisited | 28 |
22 Feb 2013 | Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Jigsaw | 26 |
22 Feb 2013 | Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Póigín Gréine | 6 |
22 Feb 2013 | Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Freckle | 8 |
15 Feb 2013 | Brian Mooney | Ravens | 25 |
15 Feb 2013 | Arthur Watson | J.C. in Jerusalem S.W. 3. Circa 30 AD. | 12 |
15 Feb 2013 | Arthur Watson | Smoking | 22 |
8 Feb 2013 | Mike Douse | Our Constitution | 44 |
1 Feb 2013 | Clare Sawtell | Lament | 11 |
25 Jan 2013 | Frank Golden | The Flaggy Shore | 14 |
18 Jan 2013 | Máire Caomhánach | Ballad | 21 |
18 Jan 2013 | Máire Caomhánach | Composition | 24 |
11 Jan 2013 | Charlotte Murphy | The Nursing Home | 17 |
21 Dec 2012 | Mike Douse | Escape Claus | 16 |
14 Dec 2012 | Thomas Moloney | My Dad's Leaving | 24 |
7 Dec 2012 | Mary Ellen Fean | Laundry Days | 21 |
23 Nov 2012 | Charlene Bennett | Evanescence | 7 |
16 Nov 2012 | Joe Cronin | A House I Lived In | 14 |
16 Nov 2012 | Peter Kay | Crucifixion Aerodrome | 14 |
9 Nov 2012 | Patrick Stack | Song for Tibet | 17 |
2 Nov 2012 | Arthur Watson | Halloween Witch Hazel | 20 |
26 Oct 2012 | Mary Ellen Fean | Spanish Holiday | 23 |
19 Oct 2012 | Donald Gardner | Bicycle On Ice | 37 |
12 Oct 2012 | Fred Johnston | Railway Station at Callac | 20 |
5 Oct 2012 | Martin Vernon | Things Are Tough At The Moment | 50 |
28 Sep 2012 | Mike Douse | Icon | 25 |
21 Sep 2012 | Charlene Bennett | Mirror | 6 |
14 Sep 2012 | Tim McMahon | Frankel | 11 |
31 Aug 2012 | Brendan O'Beirne | Patrick Kavanagh - A tribute | 8 |
31 Aug 2012 | Brendan O'Beirne | Rebirth | 12 |
17 Aug 2012 | Noel Harrington | downhill | 34 |
10 Aug 2012 | Peter Kay | The Great Wall | 24 |
27 Jul 2012 | Patrick Stack | Embrace | 17 |
27 Jul 2012 | Patrick Stack | Ordeal | 7 |
20 Jul 2012 | Dominic Lysaght | Strawberry Serenade | 27 |
13 Jul 2012 | Fred Johnston | The Village Women | 14 |
6 Jul 2012 | Arthur Watson | Silent Witnesses | 35 |
29 Jun 2012 | Patrick Boyle | To Know About Love | 15 |
22 Jun 2012 | Brendan O'Beirne | Lyric No. 3 | 17 |
15 Jun 2012 | Mary Ellen Fean | Che | 21 |
1 Jun 2012 | Dominic Lysaght | Gluttony | 28 |
25 May 2012 | Martin Guilfoyle | A Quietness of Friends | 18 |
11 May 2012 | John McGrath | Greene's Bar - Wednesday Night | 20 |
4 May 2012 | Patrick Stack | Dog Burial | 29 |
27 Apr 2012 | Brendan O'Beirne | Lyric No. 12 | 17 |
20 Apr 2012 | Arthur Watson | Spirit Store | 26 |
20 Apr 2012 | Arthur Watson | Warmest Love | 23 |
13 Apr 2012 | Peter Kay | Before You Go | 5 |
13 Apr 2012 | Peter Kay | The Triumph of Experience over Enthusiasm | 4 |
13 Apr 2012 | Peter Kay | April in Ennis | 30 |
6 Apr 2012 | Dominic Lysaght | Economic Psycho | 18 |
30 Mar 2012 | Fred Johnston | Crève-Coeur | 14 |
30 Mar 2012 | Fred Johnston | Heartbreak | 12 |
30 Mar 2012 | Fred Johnston | Watching Horses | 15 |
23 Mar 2012 | Clare Sawtell | Sheeptrack | 45 |
16 Mar 2012 | Noel Mulqueen | Crab-Apple Tree | 17 |
9 Mar 2012 | Joe Healy | Steps of Lahinch | 23 |
2 Mar 2012 | Brian Mooney | Flute Player | 30 |
24 Feb 2012 | Patrick Stack | Valentine Bouquet | 5 |
24 Feb 2012 | Patrick Stack | On Being Stood Up | 17 |
17 Feb 2012 | Teri Murray | A Requiem for Brendan O'Beirne | 31 |
3 Feb 2012 | John Pinschmidt | Villanelle: Verses Versus the Void | 19 |
3 Feb 2012 | John Pinschmidt | Before We Disappear | 19 |
27 Jan 2012 | Arthur Watson | Slugs Mating | 15 |
27 Jan 2012 | Arthur Watson | Preparing For Winter | 17 |
20 Jan 2012 | Grace Wells | February | 8 |
20 Jan 2012 | Grace Wells | Five Years | 11 |
13 Jan 2012 | Noel Mulqueen | Micro-physics | 22 |
6 Jan 2012 | Peter Kay | Jetsam | 32 |
6 Jan 2012 | Peter Kay | Hosing down the Pigs | 18 |
23 Dec 2011 | Mary Ellen Fean | Daddy's Girl | 19 |
23 Dec 2011 | Mary Ellen Fean | Mornings | 20 |
16 Dec 2011 | Noel Harrington | Apology to Teenagers | 42 |
9 Dec 2011 | Arthur Watson | Something | 47 |
2 Dec 2011 | Patrick Stack | Town and Country | 12 |
2 Dec 2011 | Patrick Stack | "As deer move..." | 4 |
2 Dec 2011 | Patrick Stack | Socializing | 9 |
2 Dec 2011 | Patrick Stack | Donaghmore Beach July 1984 | 11 |
25 Nov 2011 | Karen J. McDonnell | Can Do Poetry | 30 |
25 Nov 2011 | Karen J. McDonnell | Porridged | 3 |
18 Nov 2011 | Edward O'Dwyer | Mostly for You | 32 |
11 Nov 2011 | Brian Mooney | Catkins | 21 |
11 Nov 2011 | Brian Mooney | Autumn Love | 25 |
4 Nov 2011 | Fred Johnston | Cantique pour la Fête de Sainte-Cécile / Canticle for Saint Cecelia's Day | 7 |
4 Nov 2011 | Fred Johnston | Aux Yeux Bandés / Blindfolded | 10 |
28 Oct 2011 | Peter Kay | To a Poet | - |
28 Oct 2011 | Patrick Stack | Samhain | 11 |
28 Oct 2011 | Arthur Watson | Burnt Offering | 16 |