Keith Payne
Articles by Keith Payne
2022
2021
2019
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Irish Literature
Putting Flesh on the Archive
In a world of interminable newsfeeds and yet also of historical amnesia, there is perhaps no more defiant an act than remembering. Rachael Hegarty’s thirty-three…
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Irish Literature
Return and No Shame
Maureen Boyle gives us portraits and poems of our social history, the most democratic of histories, showing us yet again –and yes, it needs to…
2018
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Irish Literature
Moongaze More Often
Matthew Sweeney’s last collection is bright with painters: Lowry, Van Gogh, Goya, for the most part painters of possibility, or Paula Modersohn-Becker, who moved with…
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Irish Literature
Solace and Silliness
As a poet, Iggy McGovern celebrates certainties - the certainty of the slow ticking of a public house clock, ‘a quarter-hour ahead’, the certainty of…
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Irish Literature
Poetry, Exile, Homecoming
After much wandering, there is a sense of homecoming in Michael O’Loughlin’s later poems, but more the poet coming home to himself than any facile…
2017
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Irish Art / Culture
Whiskey In The Jar
Keith Payne was the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award winner for 2015/2016. His collection Broken Hill (Lapwing Publications) was published in 2015. It was followed in 2016 by Six…
2016
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Irish Literature
Witnessing
The answer then as to why tell these women’s stories, why write this, why read this, are the poems themselves. As with all the important…
2015
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Irish Art / Culture
Signs of the Times
A new Dublin history book is more than just a roll-call of past businesses in the city. It is what much poetry attempts to be,…
2014
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Irish Literature
Joyce’s Comic Strips
A well-drawn portrait of our greatest artist that recounts some of the adventures of his life and work might be just the thing to perk…
2013
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Irish Literature
Trompe l’Oeil
All is very far from what it seems in a literary mystery novel by poet Ciaran Carson set in Belfast and Paris.