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Poem Of The Week | Hate Is A Thing Without Feathers By Ali Whitelock

Ali Whitelock Feb 22, 2019 0

Hate Is A Thing Without Feathers By Ali Whitelock I have always hated my thighs. (is hate too strong a word?) if hate were a thing with feathers, weeping sores from first world infections would decline. when she first married him the…

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It’s Great To Be Able To Help Make Those Little Connections | Interview With Rowan McCabe

Sam Murphy Feb 6, 2019 0

Rowan McCabe is a poet and performer from Newcastle upon Tyne. Aware that poetry isn’t a proper job, he decided to create his own and is now the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asks what is important…

Poetry

The Impulse To Make All Work Often Seems To Come From Images | Interview with Zillah Bowes

Sam Murphy Jan 23, 2019 0

Zillah Bowes is a writer and filmmaker. She has won the Wordsworth Trust Prize and Poems on the Buses Competition, and was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Alpine Fellowship and Listowel Poetry Awards. She has…

Poetry

Poem Of The Week | burnt offerings by Anne Casey

Anne Casey May 18, 2018 0

burnt offerings By Anne Casey swilling cinders of eucalypt forests burning up and down the coast tinged with hints of fear singed possum hairs lifting into clear blue air an earthquake in Italy shakes me awake a mother crying…

Poetry

Things Left Unsaid | Poetry Review: Emma McKervey’s The Rag Tree Speaks

Jessica Syposz Apr 18, 2018 0

Emma McKervey’s impressive debut collection, The Rag Tree Speaks opens with ‘An Sciathán,’ which poses a question about the Irish language: why is there no word for hand or foot? McKervey explains this linguistic gap in a factual, almost…

Poetry

Poem Of The Week | Tender Cuts Of Vegan by Edward O’Dwyer

Edward O'Dwyer Apr 6, 2018 0

Tender Cuts Of Vegan at the Limerick Strand Hotel, 29th March, 2018 By Edward O'Dwyer When there are Vegan-friendly restaurants, it must be fair to wonder if Vegan-unfriendly restaurants exist, or even Vegan-indifferent…

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Language Terrifies Me | An Interview With Andy Eaton

Sam Murphy Mar 14, 2018 0

Andy Eaton is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. His poems appear in…

Poetry

Poem of The Week | Show Saturday By Rachel Burns

Rachel Burns Mar 2, 2018 0

Show Saturday By Rachel Burns We stop to watch four white geese herded into a pen by a border collie taking instructions from a red- headed man who whistles left and right turns one short whistle, one long. …

Poetry

Creative Connections In a Big Nebulous Confusion | An Interview with Colm Keegan

Sam Murphy Feb 22, 2018 0

Colm Keegan is a writer and performance poet from Dublin, Ireland. Since 2005, he has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both poetry and fiction and won the All Ireland Poetry Slam in 2010. …

Poetry

I’ve Been in a Pretty Constant State of Panic | An Interview with Oisin McKenna

Sam Murphy Feb 21, 2018 0

Oisin Mckenna is a London and Dublin based writer and performer, working in poetry, theatre and film. He makes queer performances about Ireland, pop culture and politics. His most recent play Gays Against the Free State! (Dublin Fringe…

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