New poem inspired by comments Vincent Woods made on the death of Anthony Cronin

A new poem ‘One Has To Admire His Ability As A Poet’, inspired by these comments Vincent Woods made on the death of Anthony Cronin, is just published on the excellent Poethead website. Before you read the poem, to get you in the mood, you should first put your underpants on your head and play the Youtube video below.

Have To Admire His Ability "To share a roast leg with General Amin/& not mind which of his enemies was being eaten" https://t.co/Q0wGhdzltI pic.twitter.com/TVAeVtTbH9

— Kevin Higgins - poet (@KevinHIpoet1967) January 3, 2017

UPDATE 5/1/2017 the poem has been republished on Broadsheet.ie 

The Haircut

I've published a number of new poems online recently and the reaction has been universally positive.

Here is my most recently published effort which is less overtly political than recent others; it's called 'The Haircut' and thanks to Chris Murray for giving it space on her fine Poethead poetry website.

I will be getting a haircut myself on Tuesday (it being Cúirt Festival week here in Galway) and plan to get one in this style myself.

Aborted babies heating British Hospitals?

Cora Sherlock, Vice Chairperson of the Irish Pro-Life Campaign, is, as the Weekly Standard once said of Sinéad O'Connor's ex-boyfriend, John Waters, "one of the most original thinkers in Europe right now".  

On April 1st Cora issued the following audacious Tweet 

How come #IrelandsGuiltySecret didn't address fact that incinerated remains of 15,000 aborted babies were used to heat hospitals in UK?
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) April 1, 2015

Despite the date, it was not an April fool, at least not consciously so. Indeed it's nothing Cora hasn't said before. When Cora said similiar on Twitter late last summer, it let me to write 'Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion', a constructive contribution to the ongoing abortion/renewable energy debate, written in poetic form. It was originally published on Chris Murray's always lively Poethead site. 

Cora's April fools day resurrection of the issue on Twitter resulted in this article, in which both Cora's excellent suggestion and my poem feature, being published yesterday on the U.S. based left wing political blog We Know What's Up.  
 
It appears that Cora is a bit miffed by all this, and thinks I'm joking. 

Sad indictment of humanity when #prochoice mock aborted babies' remains being used to heat UK hospitals. pic.twitter.com/gaaoQCDdwu
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) April 2, 2015

I can assure you Cora, me auld mucker, I am quite, quite serious. 

Poem to mark St. Patrick's Day & Yeats2015

Today is St. Patrick's Day and tomorrow, as part of the 'I Will Arise And Go Now Festival' in Gort, I will be MCing the special Yeats2015 Over The Edge: Open Reading at Gort Library.

To mark the occasion I am publishing my re-write, penned back in the year 2000, of Yeats' poem 'When You Are Old'. 

Yeats' original can be read here; my re-write is here.

It Was For This

My poem ‘It Was For This’ was published today on Chris Murray’s Poethead blog

It Was For This
 

  That Queen Maeve prepared for battle
by angrily shaving her armpits with a razor
  improvised from north Fermanagh shale.
For this W.B. Yeats took all that
  experimental Viagra, and waited for
the consequences to grow. For this
  Archbishop McQuaid
rolled naked through fields of Lavender...

To read the poem in full see here

Poem inspired by Tweet from Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life campaign

My new poem 'Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion' is published today on Chris Murray's Poethead website. I am hoping the government will quickly implement the policy advocated in this poem.

Its was inspired by the following Tweet by Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life campaign.

This yr, remains of 15,000 aborted babies were incinerated & used to heat UK hospitals. Is this what Dr F & Sarah want? #AJStream
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) August 21, 2014

Cora Sherlock is one of the intellectual giants of contemporary Irish rubbish talk. May God bless her and all who sail in her.

The Little Elections

My poem 'The Little Elections' is a tribute to the hugely inspiring local election campaign which is ongoing here in Ireland. Voting takes place on Friday, May 23rd. 

On the Galway Local Elections 2014 Facebook group, when I persisted in asking where candidates stood on abhortion, always a good one to put a flame under a discussion's bum, one commenter  put me right by telling me that I had no business gabbing on about  national issues. This is a local election in which an interest in dog droppings is, apparently, essential. And so the poem was born. 

It has been published today on three different websites today.