The disturbing avatar of the month thread

[Paul]

Cran has had about a zillion, I guess. I couldn’t stand the bottle one. Bleccch! My fave of yours, Cran, was the first one (I think). It was a sillouhette of a wild looking girl with glowing eyes. Very cool, that.

[anniemcu]

@dubhlinn

@Cranberry

I’ve also never really understood dubhlinn’s:

Cran,
My avatar is a sculpture of the guy above,who used to sit on the original wooden bench and write stuff like this..

Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin …
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…Slan, D.

I liked that man… you get a free point for that.

[s1m0n]

Here’s my favorite kavanagh poem:

@Patrick Kavanagh

Epic

I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided: who owned
That half a rood of rock, a no-man’s land
Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.
I heard the Duffys shouting ‘Damn your soul’
And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen
Step that plot-defying blue cast-steel -
That was the year of the Munich bother. Which
Was more important? I inclined
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
Till Homer’s ghost came whispering to my mind
He said: I made the Illiad from such
A local Row. Gods make their own importance.

I lose the thread in the two lines about McCabe, but the rest is as strong as any poem I’ve read.

[jGilder]

@dubhlinn

Kavanagh also set to of his poems to music - he suggested traditional tunes really - one being Raglan Road and the other being If ever you go to Dublin Town.

The now famous call-in chat show where Seamus Tansey and the Kerry box player were both on the Joe Duffy show (RTE radio). I listened into the show, on line, the following day and some guy sung a song he had written about the whole Tansey affair in the style of P. Kavanaugh. My sides hurt for the rest of the day needless to say.