Category: 25 Pins in a packet women creators
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“Shock Absorber” and other poems by Anne Donnellan
Snare I am tired of you being you tired of the slit-eye side scan tired of the frivolous flip of your bone, tired of your toy dog dead head bob. If I dare to step on your shadow you gobble my frame with vacant glare torch my aura with ethanol as I utter a word […]
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‘The Writing Desk’ and other poems by Sinéad McClure
Subsidence I’m of the age now That’s how my GP put it as he half muttered something about female hormones leaving my body I imagined them packing their bags happily, looking forward to exploring better terrain, cooler plains. They don’t leave quietly there is a deep boom sounding in me loud enough to raise heckles […]
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“I Have to Believe that the Body Aspires to a Soul” and other poems by Ann Pedone
I Have to Believe that the Body Aspires to a Soul I tell you/there was something about that woman/her face/undiluted/ lips open/as if she were waiting/for the sky to come/down on her. There was something about it that/I needed to know/something that/I wanted to remember/something/it was the light/that mattered/this woman/gathered/the light/ held it in-side […]
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‘After Rembrandt’s Women’ by Iseult Healy
Delicious She was no Eve this apple of a woman whose red dress surrounded the flowing flesh of twin hillocks, hung over the ridge of her cheeks to flow down to stocking tops Hot and juicy, easy-peel woman They ate at their pleasure wiped her juice from their jaws munched to the skeletal core […]
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A Celebration of Irish women poets on Bloomsday 2020
‘Words Like Stars’ by Roisin Ní Neachtain How they flow unformed Then fix themselves like the stars Shivering and held up Worshipped And I And they Staggering and squawking Sweating and squabbling Night and day Wobbling words Singing Dust Dust Dust Corrosive mantles Wrought to a stain Stain us Stain the water to the earth […]
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“Children of Agent Orange” and other poems by Asma Zulfiqar
Mythical Night Oh Night, Oh Calm and Mythical Night, Have you not seen the moon? How bright! ‘Tis not the sun but the twilight, To the earth holding tight. How soothing! Cool and warm in winter’s night, Calling it the noon, ‘‘tis all right’’ See the stars twinkling at height, A moth gently flying around […]
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‘If I Weren’t Afraid’ and other poems by Ella Bowler
I Don’t Talk, I Let You Talk All The Time You sit opposite me, on a broken stool, smiling with your teeth. Rain drips from the ceiling, seeps into table cracks, running onto jeans. You speak in trauma, in childhood, in breathy laughs, in old love. I show my teeth. You take up more space […]
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“Distancing” and other poems by Jessamine O’Connor
Meet me for coffee Not a cup of tea, a pint or just ‘meet me’ because I want to wait awkward at a counter beside you with the steam spluttering, the espresso machine knocking and our overdressed elbows almost touching. I want to sit opposite you at a small table that can never be […]
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Poems written in isolation by Mary Agnes Cullen
The following sequence of poems was composed while in isolation, and are reflections on the pandemic and the enormous changes it has wrought in all our lives. Innocence Christmas was a focal point Creating the inevitable little excitements. Predictable excesses indulged in at the year’s end. It goaded us into domestic frenzy Relaxed our personal […]
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“Cipher” and other poems by Lucy Holme
Plane Mirror Mirror, forge the image I can recognise. Give me mercury streaks for my vinegar’d smile. Show her now, same size as me. Same distance between us two. Virtual, not virtuous when I laugh, she laughs. No space spared by glass and aluminium to conceal. I cut her hair and dyed the root, aged […]
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