Saturday, April 27, 2019

Saint Féichín's Prayer on High Island *

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Between the troubled sea and fickle sky, this island barely more than raft, this church a mast, and you, my Lord, Jesus Christ, the ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Book Launch of 'The Pornographer's Model': Short Stories by Kevin Hora

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Looking forward to the launching of Kevin Hora's chapbook, 'The Pornographer's Model', next Thursday, May 2nd, at 6.30pm in...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Manet's 'The Railway': another view

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A curiosity beyond bars; children are so used to  bars. The smoke, not the engine; not the source, but its  obfuscation. ...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Ending, Beginning

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Tidying Away Thirty years of documents, notebooks, letters; packing myself into a black plastic bag: the defunct Michael; unfulfil...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Failing Light

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In the failing light of a November evening, kicking through the rotting leaves on a suburban path, I remember you, digging the gard...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Treasure

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The sun, smashed on the river, makes a million smithereens. I lie face down on the bank, make a bowl of my hands and scoop them up, ...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

How far up is the blue of the sky?

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Even the sky doesn’t know, but searches inside itself as the old men with coats and jackets went searching for letters in pockets...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Rain as a Mood

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   Right now, rain is my only jacket; its soft viciousness, clamping the throats of songbirds, stokes my anger. Fists dug ...
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Monday, April 1, 2019

Almost not at all

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I am almost not at all; teetering on the brink of invisibility, incorporeal, and rudderless   on the interface of a nebulous past,...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Emigration never left

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There was a time, maybe thirteen or fourteen years ago when it seemed the country was rid, once and for all, of the sad days of mass emigr...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Crosses in a snow-covered military cemetery.

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These crosses seem to rise from oblivion and carry oblivion on their shoulders. In their ranks, each is unaware of the next, ...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Workshop Tips for Poetry Beginners

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1.         Check that details included as factual are accurate. 2.        Check that words you have used do not have unplanned, unhelp...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Lake

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The lake sees. It draws the world’s beauty into itself and is replete. I may admire, but must not dip my hand into the water, ...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Well, my friend

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Well, my friend, our time is gone; you are dead, and I have left that group. Our friendship was the sole tie, and it was a friends...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

A happy thought for St Patrick's Day

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The weight of these beautiful things: pool of sunlight among the trees; scurrying shadows of April clouds; scintillations on wat...