Mark Granier

Wicklow-based writer and photographer. Latest poetry collection is Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2017).

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@ae_stallings I noticed that too, almost the lineaments of a face in profile, someone or something looking in. It’s a marvellous painting, cold and hard but deeply atmospheric and cinematic. I love Wyeth. He did a fantastic painting of a bonfire, quite abstract and spooky too in its way.

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@DailySnoopys @ColeHenri Mad America hurt me into poetry…

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@ae_stallings Hopefully. The wanton, vengeful destruction is off the scale.

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@BiancoDavinci Love the signposting fingers, and the cat that looks like a kangaroo!

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@BiancoDavinci @ianduhig This poetry-hating cat (possibly a relation of Pangur Dubh's) made me think of you.

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@ianduhig Obvious when you think about it.

Funnily enough, I know a couple of people (very well read, educated, etc.) who asked the same question. But that was before Google and AI. And Naomi Wolf is an idiot who lost credibility when she bought into the far right shit show.

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‘If I did not have to read poetry I should be of a lot more use in the world, as well as of a more serene temper.’

From a review of T.S. Eliot’s letters in the LRB by Stefan Collini

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@ColeHenri "Revenge of a mortal hand."

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@ae_stallings Miserable stuff. Bet on who's going to commit suicide, then, for many, home to spouse & kids & (probably) a restful sleep. Maybe some of them even go to mass. Amazing what people can square away when "lethality" & heartlessness are practically official government policy.

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@PabloReports Bet on who's going to commit suicide, then home to the wife and kids and (probably) and a restful sleep. Maybe some of them even go to mass. Amazing what people can square away, especially when heartlessness is practically official government policy.

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@conorpkelly @poemtoday Thanks for posting Conor! Much appreciated.

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@ae_stallings Perfectly apposite too, obviously, given the overbearing GOP and its blatant use of surveillance, etc.

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@ae_stallings Thanks, this is great. First one I read by Kay Ryan was about chickens coming home to roost ("the sky is dark with chickens"). I love her black humour and how she can turn a turn of phrase, proverb or idiom inside out.

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@ae_stallings Spooked 'em.

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@JohnMcCullough_ Love this. One of my faves. I love the sheer loopiness of those metaphors and images. I can almost see the last lines as a Loony Tunes cartoon.

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@sciencegirl Eighth

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This experiment breaks your brain 🤯

Remove air in the world’s largest vacuum chamber, drop a bowling ball and feathers, and Galileo is proven right—400 years later.

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Trump 🔽

This is hysterical and sad at the same time.