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Things I learned from Black Writers, by Sarah Clancy

Things I learned from Black Writers, by Sarah Clancy | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
      Things I learned from Black writers who were under no obligation to teach me- from bell hooks I learned that things are not how I see them, not nearly and definitely not completely from Chinua Achebe I learned that admitting this...
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Sarah Clancy Wins Inaugural Irish People’s Poetry Prize

Sarah Clancy Wins Inaugural Irish People’s Poetry Prize | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
  Thrilled to see that Sarah Clancy (featured in Uimhir a Cúig) has just won the inaugural Irish People's Poetry Prize for her poem ‘And Yet We Must Live in these Times’ - a poem on the affect...
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Uimhir a Cúig | Poetry-Performed-Out-Loud-In-Public: Essay & Poems --- Sarah Clancy

What I am actually addicted to (other than reading which is my first love) is the act of writing, the excitement of inspiration and moments of realising that inspiration into something that didn’t ...
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Ash Wednesday Poetry Series:How To Speak Poetry - Sarah Clancy

Ash Wednesday Poetry Series:How To Speak Poetry - Sarah Clancy | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
* To hear Sarah Clancy's poem go here. and yet we must live in these times with thanks to Paul M. Garrett for an idea and for breakfast in at the housing office the woman says if I need a house I’l...
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Cúirt Manifesto/ Prayer from a Bunker, by Sarah Clancy.

Let us pray for literature, for language and all its constituents without which no-one could be eloquent and no one foulmouthed from this, our front line offensive let us pray for sentences that rescue our inexpressible thoughts from their solitary...
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The Truth and Other Stories by Sarah Clancy

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The Truth & Other Stories Sarah Clancy Salmon Poetry €12 A good poem— and there are good poems here— is, as Dylan Thomas says, a contribution to reality. So these poems are not the truth but contributions to the ongoing debate. I initially had problems with the definite article in The...
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The Irish in Britain by Sarah Clancy

The Irish in Britain by Sarah Clancy | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
The Irish in Britain   Had I lived I would be fifteen now scrawling your name on my copy-book as some listless teacher droned, we made our own spells our own rules you and I painted circle ‘A’s on ...
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Sarah Clancy, 'Someone's Always Losing', All Ireland Poetry Slam Final, December 9, 2013

Connacht champion and 2nd place winner, last up at North Beach Nights in the second and final round of the All Ireland Poetry Slam Final at the Crane bar, Ga...
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