Irish poets contribute to 9/11 Anthology

national | anti-war / imperialism | other press Thursday September 07, 2006 17:44 by poetry news

Remembering the desperate on 9/11

Nearly 90 poets from around the world, including Irish poets, Dave Lordan, Nigel McLoughlin, Kevin Higgins & Patrick Chapman, have contributed to Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, an anthology of poems on the Twin Towers atrocity and its consequences. But they aim for more than pious hand-wringing: the anthology will be free, but there will be a request to donate to the Red Cross.

nthposition, the site behind the anthology, wants to maximise the money raised by listing it on iTunes as
a PDF. Though sales of poetry books are flat, online poetry is booming – the internet is "more fluid,
flexible, and much more accommodating", as Marjorie Perloff said recently.