Lyonesse by Penelope Shuttle Pere Gimferrer and performative power

and performative power

Louis de Paor argues that Irish language poetry should be evaluated according to its own rigorous aesthetic rather than as a subsidiary of the dominant Anglophone tradition of Irish writing

a recently designated superfund site that was once a fertile fishing ground for the Canarsie Native American tribe

grief and tenderness in these poems are universal and belong to every kind of human affection - indeed Forcano has been described by the Catalan journalist and academic Pere Ballart as 'our foremost love poet'

that a stone is a nucleus of guilty safety

Lyonesse by Penelope Shuttle Pere Gimferrer and performative powerThe submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth and the oral tradition, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change. And there was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Isles of Scilly and St Michael's Mount left as remnants above sea level. Lyonesse was also Thomas Hardy's name for