0005 Charles Lang DAYDREAM by PoetryJukebox Quotidian published on 2021-12-13T11:26:03Z Charles Lang is from Castlemilk in Glasgow. His work has appeared in Gutter, Poetry Ireland Review, The Rialto, Under the Radar, and elsewhere. Aye ok was published by Speculative Books in 2020. As If, a digital portfolio of poems, was published by Fallow Media in 2021. He is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. 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
