reproductions of the forty-nine works of art that inspired them. When he was confined from 1964 to 1967, Paul Durcan met many priests incarcerated in asylums by their bishops because they … The result of this request and of the poet’s passion for painting is a book made up of forty-seven poems printed along with the reproductions of the forty-nine works of art that inspired them. How does he get it all to hang together? The Irish context is reinforced by the reference to “Thomas Street”, a street in Dublin. This is his own favourite piece in the collection. She has published several articles about Paul Durcan, and other contemporary Irish poets such as Michael Longley, John Montague, Harry Clifton, Trevor Joyce or Geoffrey Squires. “The Crucifixion” is the second ekphrasis, commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland in 1990 and inspired by the Gallery’s collection. Jail was the only place for them. The poet claims he was himself confined because he did not meet his family’s expectations. As a last name Durcan was the 97,210 th most popular name in 2010.; How unique is the name Durcan? And a voice said, ‘It has just been announced that the poet Seamus Heaney has died’.”. 15Just as Paul Durcan plays with blaspheme to underline what is truly blasphemous, they play with the obscene to highlight the obscenity of intolerance. These places existed throughout Ireland. He was born on October 16, 1944 (75 years old) . Paul Durcan (born 16 October 1944) is a contemporary Irish poet. Christ becomes a woman and his crown, dreadlocks; Mount Golgotha, an asylum and then a car park, and so on. They created a book composed of seven poems and acrylic paintings sharing the same titles. Rennes : PU de Rennes, 2010. Early life. Another striking image, in an 85th birthday poem for Brian Friel, is of the playwright “riding a Vespa scooter across the bogs of Mayo”. Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil: One Hundred Poems, Harvill (London, England), 1999. Cathy Roche-Liger wrote the first French thesis on the Irish poet Paul Durcan in 2011, focusing on his pictorial poetics. The actions of the father in “The Crucifixion” (. ) 13Similarly, in “Forefinger”, published in his 2012 book entitled Praise in which I Live and Move and Have my Being, he turns the Pope’s admonishing forefinger into a penis to denounce his intolerance, as opposed to the true Christian values of love and mercy that Paul Durcan seeks (Durcan 2012, 82-83). (Murray 10). The first two lines of the poem shift the context of Christ’s crucifixion, playing with contrasts and similarities. W…, Heaney, Seamus So you’re looking across Blacksod Bay at the lights of St Petersburg.”, One poem that is likely to cause a stir is Breaking News, which features the voice of the late Seamus Heaney coming down the chimney of a house in Mayo. Dublin: Clashganna Mills Press, 1988. And heard. It is a denunciation of what has been done in the name of the father/Father. The crocodile was present in a former version of the poem “First Love” to be then replaced by that of “Kampala Implacables”.12 The badger, the crocodile or the “Kampala Implacables” are different images of the same monster conjured up by the father’s head, that is to say by his decision to confine his son or his daughter. “You get stabbed by these moments of loss,” says Durcan. The crocodile was present in a former version of the poem “First Love” to be then replaced by that of “. Christ becomes a woman and his crown, dreadlocks; Mount Golgotha, an asylum and then a car park, and so on. Durcan, Paul. Ekphrasis. Through this quote, the poet expresses his will to capture the moving trail of the human presence through life on the page, just as Bacon did in his paintings. The second of these impulses, on the contrary, accepts a modest, unpretentious, demystified language that claims no magic, whose arbitrariness and temporal succession can escape the frozen momentary vision that, in seeking the momentous, would belie the fleetingness of the moment in an anti-pictorial blur. Le Regard dans le texte, Image et écriture du Quattrocento au XXe siècle. It's the surprise of reality without makeup rather than the jolt of a punk adolescent mask, black and white with a slash of red….Like a nun married to God, Durcan lets intense, consuming love of his idealized father, an unconventional admission for a man, give complete meaning to these poems. This reference is suggested both by the daughter’s confinement in the mental hospital and the references to “childbirth”: “[…] it’s a case merely of childbirth. Harmon, Maurice, editor, The Irish Writer and the City, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1983. It gives an insight into his childhood and allows readers to reflect themselves. Devant l’image. Colm, Taoibain, editor, The Kilfenora Teaboy: A Study of Paul Durcan, New Island Books (Dublin, Ireland), 1996. Through her words, the writing of the ekphrasis continues and the palimpsest thus created becomes more and more complex. In being both a live and enchanted representation, she personifies this paradoxical new form of enchantment to which the poet aspires.

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