Keith Payne was the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award winner 2015-2016. An award-winning poet and translator, recent collections include Broken Hill (Lapwing, Belfast, 2015); Six Galician Poets (Arc, 2016); Diary of Crosses Green, from the Galician of Martín Veiga (Francis Boutle, 2018); The Desert, from the Galician of María do Cebreiro (Shearsman, 2019, PBS Translation Choice) and Second Language, from the Galician of Yolanda Castaño (Shearsman 2020). He is director of The La Malinche Readings Ireland/Galicia and PoemaRia International Festival of Poetry, Vigo.
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In spite of the waves of uncertainty and fear,
I slept sounder and deeper than I had in years,
and dreamt that the animal kingdom had reclaimed
our world, undoing the damage heedlessly waged
by a reckless populace. The beasts rebalanced
the scales of our indifference: a second chance
to treat this Earth with the gratitude it deserves...
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021