YOU’RE THE OTHER PERSON’S CHAMPION You stand by them with encouragement and support.You knock gently so they do not hear you enter theirsoulAnd still their fears!You defend them, when hard hearted people attackthemAnd catch them unawares.They will rise to the […]
Read more →The museum of Literature Ireland (MOLI) has just announced an exciting new venture for young writers across the country. The Edna O’Brien Young Writers Bursary will be a five day immersive programme for fifteen students from all over Ireland.
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What can we do to relieve some of the internal stress? Write it all down and let it all out, just as Jan Brierton has done.
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Geneva Pattison Post Lockdown What did you do in Lockdown ?Why are you asking meI don’t know what day it is.Are you from RTE ? No l am not learning a new languageNor reading the latest booksKeeping body and soul […]
Read more →Aifric Kyne Lana Del Rey’s debut venture as a poet is as one would expect, given the singer’s whimsical Americana persona. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (Simon & Schuster, 2020) uses the Californian landscape as backdrop to poems exploring […]
Read more →Geneva Pattison In a year filled with so much death, devastation and sadness, the loss of Eavan Boland on the 27th of April felt somewhat surreal. People may have known her from studying her poetry during the leaving cert, some […]
Read more →Geneva Pattison Amidst this global pandemic, the surreal state of lockdown presented a myriad of challenges for people across Ireland. Feelings of anxiety, loss, worry and longing seem to be a universal experience in relation to this new era of […]
Read more →The Shellybanks Barry Saunders Heading down the pidgeon house road on a sunny May day Just me and the grandson as it’s his favourite place to play The rest will follow down soon as we have been sent on ahead […]
Read more →By Geneva Pattison “Workers in the arts sector deserve to enjoy the same protections as those in other sectors.” In February of this year, the Wake up Irish Poetry website was launched. The site contains a public, open letter to […]
Read more →By Geneva Pattison There are patterns in existence, so random and seemingly imperceptible that we simply miss them completely. Paula Meehan’s poetry collection, ‘Geomantic’, seems to attempt to fight this idea by creating order out of chaos. The word Geomantic […]
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