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Michael Naghten Shanks 6 posts 0 comments

Michael Naghten Shanks lives in Dublin and online. His writing is featured or forthcoming in publications such as Gorse, The Penny Dreadful, 3:AM Magazine, Poems in Which, New Irish Writing, The Quietus, 30 Under 30 (Doire Press), New Planet Cabaret (New Island) and elsewhere. He has read at events in Ireland and the UK and been listed for various prizes. He is editor of The Bohemyth.

Contemporary Poetry

Contemporary Poetry |5| Emily Berry

Michael Naghten Shanks May 21, 2015 0

Emily Berry grew up in London. An Eric Gregory award winner in 2008, her debut poetry collection Dear Boy (Faber and Faber, 2013) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. She is currently working towards a PhD in Creative…

Contemporary Poetry

Contemporary Poetry |4| Dylan Brennan

Michael Naghten Shanks May 7, 2015 0

Dylan Brennan, originally from Dublin but currently based in Mexico, is a poet, memoirist, essayist and researcher. His debut poetry collection, Blood Oranges (The Dreadful Press, 2014), received the runner-up prize in the Patrick Kavanagh…

Contemporary Poetry

Contemporary Poetry |3| Michael Earl Craig

Michael Naghten Shanks Apr 3, 2015 0

Michael Earl Craig is a poet and certified journeyman farrier who lives near Livingston, Montana. He is the author of four collections, most recently Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010) and Talkativeness (Wave Books, 2014). In the poems that…

Contemporary Poetry

Contemporary Poetry |2| Billy Ramsell

Michael Naghten Shanks Mar 20, 2015 0

Billy Ramsell is from Cork. He has published two collections with Dedalus Press, Complicated Pleasures in 2007 and The Architect’s Dream of Winter in 2013. Shortlisted for several prizes, including the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he was…

Contemporary Poetry

Contemporary Poetry |1| Mira Gonzalez

Michael Naghten Shanks Mar 6, 2015 0

Mira Gonzalez is from Los Angeles. Her first collection, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, was published by Sorry House at the start of 2013. Since then it has received numerous positive reviews and award…

Whats On

Electric Picnic 2014 | 4 | St. Vincent

Michael Naghten Shanks Aug 5, 2014 0

She’s a Cyborg, But That’s OK If, like me, you’ve sometimes wondered what happened to Young-goon – protagonist of Park Chan-wook’s dark South Korean rom-com from 2006, I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK – then the release of St. Vincent’s…