Lucy Collins introduces Grief’s Broken Brow, 10 poems commissioned for the Poetry as Commemoration project
Charred bundle of pleadings made to the Law Exchequer, 1773. Reproduced by kind permission of the Director of the National ArchivesGrief’s Broken Brow, a volume of 10 poems commissioned as part of the Poetry as Commemoration project, is now available in libraries across the island of Ireland for all our communities, and for future generations, to read.
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Others choose familiar poetic modes and stable verse structures to bring a feeling of authority, and clarity of thought, to the work. This juxtaposition of established and surprising forms makes us recognise the power of poetry to demand that we rethink the received narratives of the past.
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