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Staircase Poetry Project (2005 - 2006)

 

Poems on a staircase in The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland. A new poem a month for 12 months (August 2005 to September 2006). Commissioned by Leitrim County Council under the Percent for Art Scheme. A book, Staircase Poems, was published in 2006. Click here to read much more about the project in a blog format.


 

poem one: The Cleaheen Road

 

 

 

poem two: Make Good All Existing

 

 

 

poem three: Dirty Weather

 

 

 

poem four: Zaden Bestseller/No Bestseller

 

 

 

poem five: Want/Plenty

 

 

 

poem six: Memorandum in Winter

 

 

 

poem seven: Things I Didn’t Know I Loved

 

 

 

poem eight: A Story From Effrinagh

 

 

 

poem nine: Portrait of Mister Justice Feargus Flood

 

 

 

poem ten: Caution Staircases

 

 

 

poem eleven: Report (McGahern)

 

 

 

poem twelve: How Blow-ins Become Locals