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Charles Bane, Jr. has no shortage of writing accolades. He is the American author of a chapbook published with Curbside Splendor , a collection called Love Poems that is available from Aldrich Press, and Three Seasons: Writing Donald Hall.…

September is back with a vengeance, traffic is worse, kids have disappeared into their schooling and we’re all in need of a little poetry. So we’re here to give it to you. The summer might be over, but there are still all sorts of poems to…

I’m all about the poetry readings, but sometimes there’s a poetry reading that you know is going to beat all the other ones deep down into the ground. Not because the poets will be armed, or at least not violently speaking, but because they…

Michael Dineen is a poet from Cork based in Dublin. He has been published in Southword, The Shop, The Penny Dreadful, Weary Blues and Abridged. As well writing poetry he is a keen marathon runner, gig goer and traveller. He can be found on…

James Conor Patterson is 26 and from Newry, Co. Down. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abridged, The Bohemyth, Cyphers, Irish Left Review, Magma, The Moth, New Welsh Review, New Statesman, The Open Ear, The Penny Dreadful, Poetry…

August is mad for the poems, mad for them. It was almost impossible to choose what to feature,  with stellar line-ups popping up all over the country. I couldn’t possibly mention everything, so these are just a few of the highlights. If you…

Just a Second is a collection of five of mini plays on global issues that has been published by Afri. It will be launched in Dublin Liberty Hall on Thursday August 5th at 6.30pm. Run by Pete Mullineaux, one of the warmest poets rocking…

Michael Naghten Shanks is the editor of online literary journal The Bohemyth. His own writing has featured or is forthcoming in various publications, including gorse, The Penny Dreadful, New Irish Writing, Southword, 3:AM and The Quietus.…

Rosamund Taylor is from Dublin, but lived and worked in Edinburgh for five years. In 2015 she was chosen to take part in the Poetry Introductions series run by Poetry Ireland, and gave a reading as part of the Dublin International…

Elaine Cosgrove was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2015. Recently, she read at the New Writers's Salon as part of Listowel Writers' Week. Her work was 'highly commended' in the 2014 Gregory O'Donoghue International…