0002 Anna Loughran - EXPERIENCE, CAVE HILL by PoetryJukebox Quotidian published on 2021-12-13T11:18:41Z Anna Loughran lives in England. Her debut pamphlet, Chords of Inquiry, was published by The Lifeboat Press. You can find her on twitter @annaloughran_ One hundred years on from the partitioning of Ireland and the creation of Northern Ireland as a separate state, this project asked twenty contemporary poets to project a vision for this troubled place one hundred years into the future. In doing so, they follow a noble tradition that can be traced back to the Bards of the ancient courts, where poets were revered, feared even, as prophets and tellers of truth. We believe poetry is capable of expressing the contradictory, often ambiguous, versions of ‘the truth’ or ‘the narrative’ that live cheek by jowl, firmly held, oppositional, adamantly defended. We commissioned new work from twenty poets. The cohort includes established writers and new voices, a mix of identity, age and gender, poets from the north of Ireland and the Republic, people living here whose country of origin is other, or those who have left and are watching from afar. Genre Poetry
