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- Radical Poetry offers the Radical Collection of Radical Poetry, on Radical subjects such as Pain and Poverty, from the Radical pen of Radical Irish Poet, Radical Rooney; also hundreds of top quality Radical Photographs and Radical Haiku, Radical stories from the imagination of Radical Rooney Check out Radical poetry.com for glorious poems, photoes, stories, articles,travelogues and other fascinating things.!!!!'Bold text'
Biography
Joseph Alponsus Damian Rooney, more commonly known as Radical Rooney, was born and grew up in Belfast during the fifties. He immigrated to England as a teenager in search of work and later joined a Kibbutz and eventually traveled to the United States. He currently lives in Hastings.
Radical Artist
Radical Rooney has successfully delved into several artistic pursuits. He published a glossy magazine, ‘Your Eyes’. He has been widely published and his poems have appeared in various anthologies, including South East Arts. He was sponsored by Hampstead Council for a photography exhibition and has works on display in Japan and America. He is an accomplished poet having read at The Poetry Society in Earls Court.
He published his first volume of poems in the late eighties, `Thorns of Silk' and has just compiled the `Century Collection', which comprise one hundred of his best works together with a collection of `Haiku', which are only available via this web- site. A forth coming work "Radical Poetry and Haiku" will be released May 2008.
Rooney believes that the World Wide Web offers unique opportunities and less censure than traditional commercial media paths available to artists.
He has a number of Patents to his credit, and holds a current Press Card, having been a member of the N.U.J.
Radical Works
- Poems of Life
- Poems of Tragedy
- Poems of Wonder
- Poems of War
- Poems of Animals
- Poems of Poverty
- Poems of Pain
- Poems of Death
- Poems of Praise
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WITH WATER IN MY EYES I moved to town, and the people came They took the brightness from my life
And the colour from my skies
They stole the pity from my eyes
And the fur from off my cat
They killed my pride and crippled my beliefs
Then buried my love and planted seeds of lust They used my body to poison my mind
And then they took my soul
And slowly crushed it dry
Now my skin grows thicker by the hour
My heart lies coated with envy
And I have learnt the power of hate Now they own my body and my mind
Yet I feel so very strange
For my hungry hollow shell
That wanders home at night
Sometimes sees the stars
And I must lean against the wall For I do not see so very well
With water in my eyes
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- FAILURE
- Failure feeds like condensation
- With the clinging damp of hesitation
- When life itself seeks out revenge
- Like loss of trust in faithful friends
- And the bravest of men must fade in its gaze
- Where wisdom alone can kindle the blaze
- Of a God on high that makes men think
- As failures, we all in His image shrink
- Then faith and hope must surely shake
- The thought that God might make mistake
- We should then with despair driven
- Fall to our knees to be forgiven
- ...from the Poems of Pain Collection
Community Reviews
There is a new hardback book being published shortly in SEPTEMBER.2008, by Authorhouse Press, called "The Century Collection" by J.A.Rooney, which contains 100 Poems and 100 sets of Haiku, which should be available from all major outlets, including AMAZON,.both in the U.K. and the U.S. This is a must read if you have the Kleenex handy and is good value for money, making a great gift. IT IS currently priced at £9-99 for softback and £19-99 for Hardback, but cheaper from Amazon.
ALSO AVAILABLE SHORTLY ARE A COLLECTION OF STORIES titled TALL TALES AND SHORT STORIES, and a fascinating travelogue with hundreds of his photos, about the two most exotic destinations in the world, entitled TRAVELS IN KENYA AND EGYPT. Next year a very provocative novel, which will appeal to animal lovers will be available 'FOR THE LOVE OF DOG' and he is currently working on a comprehensive AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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For previews of these poems and other radical works by the author, include voice-overs, visit either RadicalRooney.com or RadicalPoetry.com.
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External Links
- Alexa: RadicalPoetry.com
- WHOIS for RadicalPoetry.com
- Arts Council of England
- Hotfrog listing
- Belfast Telegraph
- Hastings Online
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- Radicalrooney (frustrated) : although this is the only site with a genuine title of radical poetry both as a .com and also a .co.uk. it appears below sites like for example petes radical poetryS or the womens collective radical poetrySurely, on the basis of purity of name of site, regardless of content the requested site title should draw priority. 15:37, 1 March 2008 (PST)
