Opie's Brush With Bouda Poem by James Fitzpatrick

The poem relates to the battle for a place in the Literary World as a Female ‘Thinking' Writer, at the turn of 1990's Ireland. Using the Irish Writer Mary McCarthy as a background, and Boudica the Celtic Queen who fought the Roman's as the foreground, this poem tries to relate how difficult it can be for women, no matter how talented, to make their own mark in society in their lifetime. However, it is equally as important to point out, no matter how hard the system may try, Art in it's many forms can on many occasions, survive the lust for control and censorship