Paul Verlaine Much of the French poetry produced during the "fin de siècle" was characterized as "decadent" for its lurid content or moral vision. In a similar vein, Verlaine used the expression "poète maudit" ("cursed poet") in 1884 to refer to a number of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Aloysius Bertrand, Comte de Lautréamont or Alice de Chambrier, who had fought against poetic conventions and suffered social rebuke or were ignored by the critics. But with the publication of Jean Moréas' "Symbolist Manifesto" in 1886, it was the term symbolism which was most often applied to the new literary environment. Along
Seán Dunne (poet) in Waterford City from Thursday 19 March to Saturday 21 March. It featured poets such as Tom Paulin, Conor O'Callaghan and MacDara Woods, with performance poets Eamon Carr and Raven. It also featured writers A. L. Kennedy, Paul Carson, Declan Lynch and more. The winner of the competition was Luke Byrne from St John's Park, Waterford, for his poem "Winter". Seán Dunne (poet) Seán Dunne (1956–1995) was a poet born in Waterford, Ireland. Dunne edited several anthologies, beginning with "The Poets of Munster" (1985) and finishing with the "Ireland Anthology" which was completed posthumously by George O'Brien and Dunne's partner