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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…

Interview season 1. I’m weary of interviews, permanently tense, on edge , crunchy shoulders, learning off the syllabi and buzz words, AfL and AoL , differentiation and consolidation, the blurb style evangelical mission…

Aftermath I can still remember The mangled, mustard front Of the bonnet and the way The glass obscured A glimpse of the Holy Mother On your dashboard- Plastic, blue and Serenely expressionless. I recalled the way Your bumpy…

soon you won't know me at all you sang if i had my life to live over i’d still do the same things again and our eyes fell on you like nostalgia on an aul yellowed snap raymond left and you spiraled in slow descent with your…

Professor Crowbar is an expert in crowbars, he's Head of Crowbar Studies. As a child they were all he cared about - drew picture after picture and pinned 'em to the walls, his bedroom a shrine to the crowbar. Fell in love with a…

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…

Ache I am for stories The aching slip, slide As characters bump against each other The almost, maybes I am for telling stories One day I will tell you ours Unsure if you will recognise it For I added a sunset here and there And…

As an academic, the process of summarizing the works of one of the Established Cannon’s greatest contributors is often seen as a regressive, if not wholly reductive one. Surely any evidence of perceived greatness is tied entirely into the…