Dannie Abse

Link to poem and further link to obit. in Guardian

Seamus Heaney’s last poem published in Irish national gallery’s anthology

You can read this and see a picture of the painting that inspired it by following the embedded link.

Banks of a Canal
by Seamus Heaney
Gustave Caillebotte, c.1872

Seamus Heaney’s last poem published in Irish gallery’s anthology | Books | The Guardian

Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary)

"Now, thanks to UbuWeb, you can not only read Borges, but hear him as well. They offer MP3s of Borges’ complete Norton Lectures, which the writer gave at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and the spring of 1968". List of links to the eight Harvard lectures. It says he was virtually blind and gave the lectures without notes.

A Curse Upon the Poets

Hopewell Rogers - undergroundbooks.org:

[...]

In truth, old dead, I pray you rose again--
I pray you found, once rain and roots renewed
A mustard tree, a house to revel in,
A feast by mulled camaraderie imbued
(Or, if you tired of the gab of men,
A sylvan path, a stream, some solitude).
But if you died who once could hold a pen:
I wish you—cordially—disquietude. 

Uche Ogbuji

Descent

Pishsh!
The pishsh
Snow flies pishsh
Head height, foot flung,
Cold in crouching shock
As mouths Oh! into smiles

[...]

Read on: Link

'Amor en la Zona Colonial' by Natalya Handal | berfrois

"Why can’t you put your tongue in my mouth like you used to?" (Read all)

Southernmost Point Guest House

The name is taken from the first poem in the book. This is a sequel to the earlier volume, Last Night's Dream Corrected, which is also still available.

You can preview the list of contents here. For more information about the contributors and the book and for links to buy, please see http://newshortstories.com/southernmost-point-guest-house/. 

W.B.Yeats Reading His Own Verse

Happy Paddy's day.