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Roisin Kelly was born in Belfast, raised in Leitrim, and currently lives in Cork City. Her work has previously appeared in POETRY, The Stinging Fly, Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, and in The Irish Times after she was shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. More work is forthcoming in Lighthouse. Her first chapbook of poetry, Rapture, was published by Southword Editions in 2016 and she is currently assistant editor of Irish literary journal The Penny Dreadful. www.roisinkelly.com

Poetry

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It [10]: Tuam

Roisin Kelly Mar 22, 2017 0

Tuam At Choeung Ek, our guide points out the sugar palm’s serrated bark good for cutting throats. In these fields a tree can be a knife. A mouth that knew only several joyful tastes of what should have been a lifetime’s sugar can…