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Headstuff Original Fiction| Googling Her
Googling Her
Jim Ward
‘Will you have a glass of something? Jameson?’ me Ma asked.
‘Naw. Can’t’ he said ‘whiskey don’t agree with me.’
‘Oh’ she said, considering her next move ‘a bottle of stout then?’
‘Yes please.’…
Poem of the Week | Fox by Fionnuala Ní Gheannáin
Fox
By Fionnuala Ní Gheannáin
Wintered Fox
Soft fur tufted
Conversation interrupted
Harsh winters slumber pale echo of transitory memory
Juicy carcass
Lush fruit of frosted morn cracks and bursts
In Narrow maw and then…
Headstuff Original Fiction | The things In between
The Things in Between by David O'Neill
His hair is too short. It is harsh like thousands of tiny needles and paired with a balding suit that flaps helplessly on the shoulder, he looks somewhere between nearly beaten and very…
Five Women Poets for Imbolc
It is the first of February, the beginning of spring, Imbolc. It is also known as the festival of Brigid, goddess of poetry and healing, and so to celebrate the day we want to share some of the most exciting women writers in Ireland today.…
UNBOUND | Four Poems by Yu-Hsuan Wu
Fictionalise
By Yu-Hsuan Wu
Reality rises
one gesture
fictionalises one silver thread behind
the clouds
A dreamer passing by
looks through the implication of the cloud thread
he says: we bridge
the…
Asylum Road: A Review
Luke and Anya get engaged on a trip to France, Luke’s parents invite them to their house in Cornwall to celebrate, and Luke finally convinces Anya to take a trip home so that he can, at long last, meet her parents. Homecoming, as it turns…
Re-Reading The Great Gatsby
Re-reading The Great Gatsby felt like revisiting an experience that made a good impression on me first time round, only to find the new experience empty of pleasure, meaning or purpose. There are beautiful sentences, a blizzard of expensive…
Poem of the Week | Two Poems by Maeve McKenna
Social Boats, Sinking
By Maeve McKenna
I am screened, polished, mimicked by dumb
mouths in artificial mirrors, talking back.
The scent of my body, its pungent genetics,
lingers on thin bandages of light…
Headstuff Picks | Best Fiction of 2020
2020 has been another great year for Irish fiction. Whether you are interested in crime or literary fiction or genre fiction (I am not even sure what that is) there has been a constant stream of reading material to keep us going through the…
Poem of the Week | The Abolition of What’s Next by Kevin Higgins
The Abolition of What's Next
By Kevin Higgins
It is ten to whenever
and must remain so.
The living room door
will remain ajar
at exactly that angle.
The cat will forever
have just opened…