Among Irish Poets

Go find a drumlin in Monaghan
Go find a lake isle in Innisfree
Go write a book, go write a poem
At Portmuck, Islandmagee.

Shelagh and Noel, Jimmy and Janice
Miho and Breda. John Montague
on Nora Barnacle, "She'll stick to him."
That's James Joyce, you understand.

Go find Mary in Portstewart
The Strand for exercise, what a beach!
You rent a room with benefits,
an introduction to Seamus Heaney.

Down to Stranmillis and the Ulster
Museum to hear Paul Durcan read.
You've got your Humanities degree now,
go to China and be a foreign expert.

Among Irish poets at the Marketplace
Theatre in Armagh you raise your head.
'McPhee of the verses,' said Tim
Ó Flaitheartaigh in jest.