Lock up your mothers (& your grandmothers)

I will be reading some poems at Stanzas in Limerick this Friday evening. For full details see here.

I have my passport to hand, have washed my thong and am all ready to go. 

People living in the general Limerick area are advised to lock up their mothers, their grandmothers, and - better to be safe than sorry - their great-grandmothers until myself and Mr Lordan have been safely escorted back to the border. 

All welcome.

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 

First poem of new year 'On The Departure From Office Of Barack Obama'

'On The Departure From Office of #BarackObama' #poem https://t.co/QhI2lx42jg @ShrewsMomentum @LiverMomentum @MomentumScot @MomentumSoton pic.twitter.com/PcDVTUM8SH

— Kevin Higgins - poet (@KevinHIpoet1967) January 2, 2017

The poem has since been re-published by The Morning Star newspaper, by Clare Daly TD on her social media accounts, and on the UK based Culture Matters site.  

2016 - the year of me being quoted in UK newspapers

One of the strange things that happened during the peculiar year that was 2016 was that poems of mine were quoted in The Daily Telegraph (pictured above), The Daily Mirror, and most recently The Times (London), in which former David Cameron adviser Lord Finkelstein took time out to take issue with one of them.

I look forward to 2017 when I expect to be quoted regularly in both Pravda and The Wall Street Journal.

My new St. Stephen's Day Tradition

Tomorrow is St. Stephen's Day. St. Stephen is pictured below on one of his more challenging days.

In these parts it is traditional that young people spend some of St. Stephen's Day going door to door performing songs and doing traditional dances.  Despite being no longer in the slightest bit young, I plan to join in this tradition as of tomorrow. I will be going door to door around the West of Ireland, ringing door bells and reciting my new poem 'Of Course They Know It's Christmas' (after Bob Geldof and Midge Ure) over a small megaphone to anyone who answers. I will be dressed in traditional costume. See below.

Please give generously. I haven't yet decided what traditional dance I'll be doing and am, as ever, open to suggestions.

Of Course They Know It's Christmas

 

To mark the season I have re-written the original lyrics for Do They Know It's Christmas?

I've taken the liberty of retitling it Of Course They Know It's Christmas and it's published on Culture Matters, Socialist Unity, & We Know What's Up.

I wish you all an ecstatic Christmas. Personally I am mostly looking forward to December 30th when I will be celebrating the one hundred anniversary of the timely death of Grigori Rasputin.

Mr Rasputin's lawyers have asked me to make clear  
that he had no involvement in either Band Aid or Live Aid.

The New Rising Will Not Be Available Later On The RTE iPlayer

My re-write of Gil Scott Heron's 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' is just published on The Bogman's Cannon. It's called 'The New Rising Will Not Be Available Later On The RTE iPlayer'. 

You can read it here.