Category: 25 Pins in a packet women creators
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‘Imprint’ by C. Murray
Amber her halls— by the periphery trees open out sky’s lungs. There are small birds below, they sing her boundaries: clay and Blue– this living thing. I touch her skin, it strikes White heart -wood blood runs white with light. She tells her tale, Silver beech, a wren– © C. Murray 2020 Read A […]
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Poems from ‘Alchemy’ by Fiona Perry
Postpartum You are as naked as a shucked oysterso, my breasts are slashed and raining pearlsfor you, my suckling child. The universehas too many doors. A terrifying flowerunfurled overnight to tell me if they tookyou away or carted you off to dielike pink tender veal. I would be preparedto stand on my own mother’s shouldersto […]
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Poems from “Venus in Pink Marble” by Gaynor Kane
Window weather The Icelanders have a word that means just that.A murky day that you know is betterenjoyed from the comfort of a window seat;soft mizzle cleansing leaves shiny and bright. When webs become crystal dreamcatchers,or perfect drops form on the telephone linesand slide slowly down like the oilon the wire of the indoor […]
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Gold Friend by Chris Murray: the title is often the last piece of the jigsaw (Irish Times)
This is an excerpt from a reflection on Gold Friend published online in the Irish Times (16/09/2020). Thanks very much to Martin Doyle who offered me the space to write about the book and about Poethead. …The convergence of influence and imagery that is inherent in Gold Friend began at Drimnagh Castle and works from […]
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“Womanhood” and other poems by Amara George Parker
womanhood womanhood did not sneak up on me when my thighs were stained with first blood that arrived so unexpected so connecting it didn’t happen when hormones sprouted lumps and bumps that others stared at and touched it was not given to me nor did I grab it in the first instance of fucking or […]
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“River” a series by Sarah Lenihan
River (I) I wish I could lay in a river glazed with gold – my heart sinking into yours amidst this pleasure. I would watch you fall beneath my feet as we would lay upon the riches we’ve won. It is a deadly notion to dream this dream of mine– The current brings us on […]
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“In Rivers” and other poems by Alison McCrossan
Sunray Here you cast your dazzling eye through clouds ruptured on surging waters, where in winds on a mission across skies born of voids words were loaded: let me out; crowns of heaving leaves spilled trees, turned them upside down, a splay of tangled guts, and spat out the despair of the years in a […]
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‘The New Natalism’ and other poems by Claire Kieffer
The New Natalism Mother is in bits but only literally she doesn’t find it funny at all this new slug covered in shreds of skin his or her own, she doesn’t know. She doesn’t want to think about which of those are hers about the things she ripped out that took on a life of […]
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“Safer Distances” and other poems by Jennifer Horgan
If you were able you’d go upstairs with me. Dream your hips poised mum jug-like dipped towards the sun. In some afternoon’s shuttered light we’re choosing fabrics to be hung. Your style, your certainty, tugs the rope of a French church bell. You’re young again, words held on winding steps in France. In this dream […]
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“Trees Walking” and other poems by Joan Mazza
Blue Moon So bright tonight, woods glow, as if some rare magic is near, orchestra building to a swell, crescendo followed by abrupt silence, pierced by an animal’s anguished squeal, sound that sends my heart thumping though my dog doesn’t bark. Imagination with a dash of desperation for a happening, some quickening. Stultifying summer heat, […]
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