Articles from Gerard McKeown

The Skaters at St.Anne's

author: Gerard McKeown : Belfast, UK
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

The Skaters at St.Anne's

author: Gerard McKeown : Belfast, UK

This is a poem I wrote about when I started going to Belfast for the first time and the old skater hang out which has since been destroyed by Belfast city council. The location is now known as Writer's Square. Effectively an organic culture has been replaced with a synthetic one. The Skaters at St. Anne’s I remember the train journeys to Belfast in winter 97 I was always reading a book or sleeping, getting told to take my feet off the seats by the ticket collector, getting off at Great Victoria Street or Botanic if I’d fallen asleep. I used to passing the skaters at St....