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Jan 61 min read
Transformation - illustration and poem / "Трансформація" – ілюстрація та поезія
Transformation - 180x120cm - paper pencil - 2016 / "Трансформація" – 180x120см – папір, олівець – 2016 textures from nature in so many...
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Jan 61 min read
Exit - illustration and poem / "Вихід" – ілюстрація та поезія
Exit - 180x120cm - paper pencil - 2014 / "Вихід" – 180x120см – папір, олівець – 2014 worker ants who crossed over to understandings of...
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Jan 61 min read
Enlightenment - illustration and poem / "Осяяння" – ілюстрація та поезія
Enightenment - 180x120cm - paper pencil - 2017 / "Осяяння" – 180x120см – папір, олівець – 2017 etched and scratched in a jungle eyes of...
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Jan 62 min read
Constantine Tereshchenko from Kherson Ukraine and I have collaborated on some of his larger art projects / Констянтин Терещенко з Херсона, Україна, і я співпрацювали над деякими його великими арт-прое
Constantine asked me if i would be interested in doing some responses to his art in poetic form. Earlier I had invited him to illustrate...
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Jan 61 min read
Ghosts - Привиди - …і це зовсім неймовірнопривиди, що смикають мене,діляться історіями з мого життяз забутими деталями.
…і це зовсім неймовірно привиди, що смикають мене, діляться історіями з мого життя з забутими деталями. Вони танцюють у моїх думках і в...
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Nov 7, 20241 min read
Som tidigare samlingar jag haft nöjet att läsa av Kiernan, är det en rytm och ett flyt i dikterna som är medryckande och målande.
"Bara för att bevisa att det finns annat att göra/Just to prove that there are other things at work" är en kort men uppslukande samling...
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Oct 15, 20241 min read
I forgot the buzz - I forgot the buzz of planes- as there awoke -
I forgot the buzz of planes - as there awoke - flew low over my hotel balcony rhythmically chiming with the Incessant torrents of water...
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Sep 29, 20241 min read
Periferi journals autumn edition is out now with two of my poems, Spöken and Midnattsmåne...
The 2024 autumn edition of Periferi is out and I have bought 6 copies to spread good poetry, and a good bonus is having two poems about...
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Sep 27, 20241 min read
Midnattsmåneen - midnattsmåne blinkarsom i en film i ögonvrångenom persiennerna
en midnattsmåne blinkar som i en film i ögonvrån genom persiennerna när jag böjer mig ner för att plocka upp det hopskrynklade papperet...
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Sep 16, 20243 min read
Söndagsintervju med Colm Kiernan av Nicko Smith, mer poesi åt folket....
Söndagsintervju med Colm Kiernan av Nicko Smith, mer poesi åt folket....
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Jun 18, 20242 min read
Beer Book release July 2024 - its never too late to quit, but can you!
And there you go Beer Book is released into the world. The inspiration coming from Anthony Jones and his tendency to barter poetry books...
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Jun 3, 20242 min read
Beer Book och Golden Hour - Colm Kiernan arbetar i en berättande dikt tradition där en scen etableras, nyanseras och sedan vrids till i slutet.
...Under 2023 kom Colm Kiernan, till vardags mastermind bakom kulturföreningen Kultivera i Tranås, ut med två böcker: Beer Book på CHAP/...
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Apr 25, 20241 min read
Fick du! - my first ever poem written in Swedish!
"Fick du" is my first ever poem written in Swedish. My favo translator into Swedish felt unemployed as he couldnt translate it he read it...
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Apr 11, 20242 min read
A quiet trip down to Malmö that turned into an international poetry reading in Cleveland Ohio.
A crash course in how to turn a holiday into a festival event. Step number one must be to hang out with the wrong people, step number two...
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Apr 3, 20241 min read
Kiernan writes with a greater awareness of rhyme and tone, making the poetry flow. I got to hear him read some of the poems...
Kiernan writes with a greater awareness of rhyme and tone, making the poetry flow. I got to hear him read some of the poems
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Apr 2, 20241 min read
And there you go, I say I dont compete with poetry but still won a place in the regional finals by accident - Poetry Slam 2024 Tranås
It was a quiet day doing final preperations for the Poetry Slam event at Kultiveras place in conjunction with the town Library. The...
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Mar 31, 20241 min read
Ad Lucem have published Ghosts / Spöken and on St Patricks day no less.
Ad Lucem NR 1 2024 arrived on the internet to celebrate St Patricks Day ,Irelands national Holiday and the day ironically I became a...
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Mar 30, 20241 min read
Periferi - Peace at Last / Äntligen ro published in Swedish at long last.
Äntligen ro which is translated by Frank Bergsten and the illustration for the poem by Ukrainian artist Tereshchenko Kostiantyn
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Mar 24, 20242 min read
A poetry reading for Tampa International Book Fair that turns into a wonderful mish mash of cultural stories involving Tranås, Herman Norrman, José Martí and the Swedish Academy
On the 10 March I had the great opportunity to read at the Tampa International Book Fair with Alesia Ribalta who invited me as well as...
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Mar 4, 20241 min read
There is no great drama, no desperation or tragedy, nothing exaggerated - Beer Book
There is no great drama, no desperation or tragedy, nothing exaggerated or underlined, it is the ordinary side of life and things. It...
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