Dead Beats Literary Blog: Our latest piece is by Irish writer, Séamas Carraher and is a poem entitled 'September Falling in Stone'. Ostensibly about the cold thaw setting in as winter advances, the poem is suffused with political undertones and provides an acerbic yet subtle indictment about capitalist society. Take a look by clicking 'view post' and leave any feedback below.

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The Eyes of a Child, their Eloquence, Width and Weaponry
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/01/the-eyes-of-child-their-eloquence-width.html

Famine Grave
http://camelsaloongallery.blogspot.ie/2013/02/famine-grave-skibereen-west-cork.html

Human Need
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/02/human-need.html

Song of My Collective Self
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/04/song-of-my-collective-self.html

On the Death of Jesús María Valle Jaramillo
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/05/on-death-of-jesus-maria-valle-jaramillo.html

The Corpse's Birthday
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/07/the-corpses-birthday.html

Dole Day
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/08/dole-day.html

Me Self So Falls the Soviet Union
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2013/11/me-self-so-falls-soviet-union.html

Work 3
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.ie/2014/09/seamas-carraher-poem.html

The Spoon in my Eye
http://themindlessmuse.blogspot.ie/2014/10/a-poem-by-seamas-carraher.html

...from The Song of Poverty

Sunflower Poem (in a Council Estate).pdf

Photograph By Ballyogan Celtic Youth

“Glory isn’t what the history books teach:
it’s a flock of buzzards in a field and a great stink.”
Ernesto Cardenal
“Zero Hour” (1954-56)

https://bohemianpupil.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/dead-flowers-vol-1-no-11.pdf

Lord of the Dole Queue
THE SHOp a magazine of poetry
Spring 2013 Issue
http://www.theshop-poetry-magazine.ie/
Alternative Link

O Lord of the Unswept Road
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.ie/2014/01/o-lord-of-unswept-road.html

Lord of Abandoned Cars
http://www.samizdat.me/lord-abandoned-cars/

Lord, it is Easter Time
https://cclitmag.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/lord-it-is-easter-time-by-seamas-carraher/

...from Dub(h)lin(n) - 20 poems of the city

Judas in the City

http://www.wordriot.org/archives/4616

Immigrant
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/immigrant-by-seamas-carraher/

Bring out your Dead
http://boyslutpublications.com/2013/06/10/seamas-carraher-one-poem/
(Site Closed - Alternative Link)

City of Justice, 1 & 2
http://www.fullofcrow.com/poetry/archives/seamas-carraher713/

On Ormond Quay
http://thebluehourmagazine.com/2013/07/11/dubhlinn-a-poem-17-on-ormond-quay-by-seamus-carraher/

Busárus, My Selfish Love (2)
http://thepoetrybusmag.wix.com/change
Alternative Link

Solomon in the City
http://www.orbisjournal.com/2015/01/orbis163/
Alternative Link

The Moon Over Blackrock Park
http://www.redriverreview.com/
(November 2015 Issue)

Dublin Street, 3
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_Street_3.jpg

South Dakota Suite
(chapbook)

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-DuKJaq66ClcjdNRmdtYl9wYVU/edit

...from SHORT POEMS, Elegies & Laments

September 17

2015

September 17, 2015, Cyphers, 81, May, 2016

Other

Dead Bird

The Clown of Contradictions

http://napalmandnovocain.blogspot.ie/2012/08/a-poem-by-seamas-carraher.html

The Palace of Love

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.ie/2012/08/seamas-carraher-poem.html

The Tree that Withers in its Leaves

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.ie/2013/02/seamas-carraher-poem.html

In My Dream i Can't Touch You
http://napalmandnovocain.blogspot.ie/2013/02/a-poem-by-seamas-carraher.html

Prayer at 50

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.ie/2013/05/seamas-carraher-poem.html

Autumn in Ghettoes,
First published in LEFT CURVE, No. 17, 1993

http://napalmandnovocain.blogspot.ie/2013/05/a-poem-by-seamas-carraher.html

Autumn 'Haiku'

http://thegalwayreview.com/2013/11/18/seamas-carraher-autumn-haiku/

Poem on my 39th Birthday

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.ie/2014/01/seamas-carraher-poem.html

a lament for danny henke

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.ie/2015/12/seamas-carraher-poem.html

C-A-N-C-E-R

http://napalmandnovocain.blogspot.ie/2016/03/a-poem-by-seamas-carraher.html

'For The Kurdish People in Diyarbakır and Beyond'

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/irish-poet-writes-for-the-kurdish-people-in-diyarbakir-and-beyond

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/02/for-the-kurdish-people-in-diyakabir-and-beyond/

http://siyahbeyaznotalar.com/irlandali-sair-seamas-carraher-kurt-direnisinin-siirini-yazdi/

"İrlanda'lı şair Séamas Carraher Kürt halkına ithafen yazdığı şiirinde Türk Devleti tarafından sokağa çıkma yasağı adı altında gerçekleştirilen yargısız infazlara dikkat çekiyor. Diyarbakır ve ötesindeki Kürt halkı için Bir çukurda oturuyorum, bombalanmış bir aklın içinde, Oturuyor ve gürültünün bitmesini bekliyorum Bu sessiz bağırış ve çığlıkların, Bu rezil dünyayı ölümden uyandırmasını bekliyorum. Bir çukurda oturuyorum, Tarihin bodrumu gib..."i

Article on Kurdish Civilian Deaths by Orsola Casagrande
List of Casualties During Turkish Curfew in Kurdistan

'By the Banks of the Tigris River My Soul Sat Down and Wept'

for the people of Cizîr‎

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/04/by-the-banks-of-the-tigris-river-my-soul-sat-down-and-wept/

The Cizre Report

https://hdpenglish.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/the-cizre-report/#more-1050

The Cizre Report - Article

http://www.dirittiglobali.it/2016/07/the-cizre-report/

'For Ashraf Fayadh Imprisoned'

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/05/for-ashraf-fayadh-imprisoned/

The Steel Cranes

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/05/the-steel-cranes/

For Ashraf - “Still Imprisoned”

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/07/for-ashraf/

"Ashraf Fayadh:

STILL IMPRISONED

JULY 28th, 2016"

“…earth is the hell prepared for refugees.”
– Ashraf Fayadh

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/07/ashraf-fayadh-still-imprisoned/

‘It Was Another Year’s September’

http://www.globalrights.info/2016/09/it-was-another-years-september/

http://camelsaloonpostcards.blogspot.ie/2013/05/greetings-from-back-street-dublin.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Back_Street,_Dublin_City,_2013.jpg

Dublin Street, 8
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_Street,_8.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cityscapes_in_Ireland Dublin Streets