Theo Dorgan

Born in Cork, Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, documentary screenwriter, editor, translator, librettist and broadcaster. His latest collection, Orpheus, takes on the challenging sapphic form to tell the story of Orpheus, the…

In the Winter 2015 issue of the The Stinging Fly Billy Ramsell invited poets to write what Ramsell called souterrains- a kind of layer below, an archaeology of the poems that would feature in the issue. These souterrains were…

Last weekend's Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2016 saw the lights of the literary world, in Ireland and beyond, descend on Dun Laoghaire to inform, inspire and entertain. Headstuff Poetry Editor, Angela Carr, was there, taking it all…

I will be doing a monthly poetrybeat highlighting some things I’m a great big fan girl of. I say fan girl in the most serious and academic way. I’m tempted to do the beat in verse, but I don’t think I’d have any friends left.  If all this…