Tag: Cyphers

• “Passing through” and other poems by Betty Thompson

  Balloons A stream of them – long and ribboning before they were inflated; breath-filled they turned into globes and cylinders: fat demi-lunes ably shaped by the long-fingered magician who, in his downtime offstage from the Hippodrome, relaxing by the fire, legs stretched across the hearth, would plunge those long hands into his pockets, to pull […]

  Chris Murray

  October 18, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets

  An Index Of Women Poets, Betty Thompson, Coffee House Poetry, Crannóg, Cyphers, If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry & Song, Painting the Vestibule, Poetry Ireland Review, The Scaldy Detail, The SHoP

• Grafted: Referendum 2018 and other poems by Ann Leahy

  Making for Open Today she is learning to walk again. One month after a minor fall, my mother heaves and plants each foot in turn, toes dragging the hardwood floor. Her eyes are fixed ahead as far as they can go beyond her new walking frame, which she grips and shoves, elbows unbent, as if […]

  Chris Murray

  December 1, 2019

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, poetry

  2008), Agenda, An Index Of Women Poets, Ann Leahy, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, Cyphers, New Welsh Review, Orbis, Poetry Ireland Review, Stand, The North, The Woman who Lived her Life Backwards (Arlen House

• “A Life Unanswered” and other poems by Susan Kelly

  The Bittersweet Her passion was historical biscuit tins or so he’d tell visitors who marvelled at the growing stacks of embossed lids that glinting with landscapes, landmarks locations she hadn’t seen, he thought it best if the world came to her. He liked her to display these gifts he brought back from places he visited […]

  Chris Murray

  November 10, 2019

  A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, new poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, poetry, Women Writers

  Abridged, An Index Of Women Poets, Boyne Berries, Burning Bush 2, Contemporary Irish Poetry, Crannóg, Cyphers, Over The Edge, Poetry Ireland Review, Revival, Susan Kelly, The London Magazine, The Stony Thursday Book, The Weary Blues, wordlegs.com

• “Sundowner” and other poems by Clare McCotter

  

  The House The regularly-occurring representation of the human form as a whole is that of the house ~ Sigmund Freud This is my house my place my home first one I ever owned leave now you dirty scum she screams at auxiliaries gripping wrists and raging elbows washing face and neck and shoulders. This is […]

  Chris Murray

  September 29, 2019

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, poetry

  Abridged, Clare McCotter, Crannóg, Cyphers, Envoi, Iota, The Blue Nib, The Honest Ulsterman, The Interpreter’s House, the moth magazine, The Stinging Fly

• ‘Prime’ and other poems by Peggie Gallagher

  

  Parlour   A bolthole, a room half elsewhere adrift in distant grandeur, where breath condenses between damask drapes and the wing of a mahogany table. Where an ear might catch the scratch of a pen, a girl trawling the depths of an inkwell pouring words, slippery as a river of fish spilling loose of their […]

  Chris Murray

  May 19, 2018

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Saturday Woman Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, Nomadics

  An Index Of Women Poets, Arlen House, Cyphers, Envoi, Peggie Gallagher, SHOp, SouthWord, Tilth

• “Tea with Akhmatova’s Cat” and other poems by John Sexton

  Tea with Akhmatova’s Cat   I’m having tea with Akhmatova’s cat who purrs in English passable enough that half-wit mice can follow what she’s at.   She speaks in metres forcible but flat: a mix of Milton, Keats, hairballs and fluff. I’m having tea with Akhmatova’s cat.   Quite bored, I count the fibres on […]

  Chris Murray

  April 23, 2016

  poetry

  Cyphers, John W. Sexton, Revival, Salmon Poetry