Sailing Alone
One of my favorite poems is The Dead By America’s Poet Laureate Billy Collins. THE DEAD The dead are always looking down on us, they say. while we are putting on our shoes or [...]
Sew Sew Sew
As part of the “O Miami Poetry Festival” the artist Augustina Woodgate has been sewing poems by Sylvia Plath and Li Po into jackets, shirts, and dresses in charity shops all over Florida. She’s a [...]
The Goodbye Kiss
Ted Kooser, a retired life insurance executive, was born in Ames, Iowa in 1039. He was appointed American Poet Laureate for 2004 – 2006. This is one of my favorite of Kooser’s short poems – [...]
How to Steal
“I’m a writer who draws” this is how Austin Kleon describes himself. His best known “poem” Overheard on the Titanic is reproduced below. Enjoy exploring his website it’s full of more poems and interesting projects he’s working on [...]
Blagging or Blogging?
This is the 200th post in the Raven Design Blog. We began blogging (or blagging) in January this year so for just six months we are not doing too bad. We are very happy with [...]
The Tortoise
The tortoise goes movey, movey. Anonymous “This prize-winning poem was written by a schoolboy from the North of Ireland some years back. The competition was judged by poet Paul Muldoon, who is Professor of [...]
Gerry Murphy
POEM IN ONE BREATH Not that you would notice but every time you pass up the corridor Lenin’s statue levitates slightly to get a better view of the remarkable ease with which you fill curved [...]
Poetry My Arse
Happy Birthday! Brendan Kennelly. One of our greatest living poets is 75 this weekend. To No One is one of my favourite poems from Kennelly’s 1995 collection Poetry My Arse. Kennelly, a native of North [...]
Answer the Bloody Question
How to get an A1 is an App we have uploaded to the App Store – and without any advertising it is already selling like hot cakes! A grind these days, depending where you live, [...]
Raven launches Poetry App
This week we launched our first App along with the super developers over at iPhoneAppSolutions and author Niall MacMonagle. YAY! We took the Poetry Now 2011 english text book for the Leaving Certificate (for higher [...]
