Tag: Online Writing

  • Orphans from Poetry Ireland’s Forum

    Some years ago poets and emergent writers used a forum on Poetry Ireland for discussion, testing poetry, and commenting on the work of others. The idea was good, although the tech wasn’t so hot. After some discussion with the then Admin it was decided to have a place (not online) where poems could be published…

  • Previews of The Blind published in Ditch Poetry

    The following poem is an excerpt from a sequence published by Ditch Poetry. The sequence is from my forthcoming collection, The Blind (Oneiros Books 2013). Part of the Sequence is published here. The first poem in the sequence, hunger, appears throughout the collection and was first published in A New Ulster Magazine. suspend I   from…

  • Bone Orchard Poetry, a blogzine for working poets and writers

    Bone Orchard Poetry is variously active on discussion sites and uses social-media well. This is what writers refer to as bloody good innovative web-use. Editor Michael McAloran keeps the blogzine brief in description, ‘ An explorative blogzine of the Bleak/ the Surreal/ the Dark/ Absurd and the Experimental. ‘ There you have it encapsulated in a single…

  • And Other Poems

    This is a brief note about the And Other Poems blog which is owned and written by Josephine Corcoran. What a breath of fresh air the blog is, judging by contemporary availability of good poetry (and critique). To say that poetry is sorely neglected in the face of market-forces is a wild understatement, but more polemic anon. “And…

  • “Chaplet” by C. Murray

    “Chaplet” by C. Murray

    Chaplet I. A conversation among trees I cannot hear what they are saying, that young girl and the tree, their whispers are intimate, ceaseless. I am sunk into a conifer hedge, tamped into a wall, threaded into the blue ivy. This is a warm chaplet against the rain, I would lie here if it wasn’t for the…

  • ‘The Storm’ , by Rainbow Reed

    The Storm “On granite rock, The woman sat. Damp hair trickled down her back, Azure highlights glimmering, Golden curls shimmering. Seaweed sparkled; waving wildly White foam horses rear and pound, Surging through the rocky mound. Crashing against the sleeping stone. Woman sits and Stares alone.   Black cloud glares, Fog horn blares, Lightning screams across…

  • Experimenting with new poetry on poethead

    I  have decided to inaugurate a new poetry section on the blog, which will be happening on the first Saturday of every month in the saturday woman poet category of Poethead. The first poem, Nine, by Brittany Hill will be followed in March by another poet’s work. I hope to keep this up until summer, when…

  • ‘Hippy Get a job’, by Sarah Clancy

    Hippy Get a Job You might not realise your predictability but when you caught my eye on Shop Street, at the demo, I could see the thoughtless words forming in your brain so before you shout them at me pass-remarkably let me just stop you there for once, and in the gap between now and…

  • ‘I have come to ask certain disrespectful questions of the tradition’; Boland on poetry’s ‘lesser-space’

    ‘I am an Irish poet. A woman poet. In the first category I enter the tradition of the English language at an angle. In the second, I enter my own tradition at an even more steep angle. I need to be candid about this because, of course, these two identities shape and re-shape what I have…

  • Post III , Poetry at the Games

    Post  is a Review of Poetry Studies from the Irish Centre  for Poetry Studies at the Mater Dei Institute , Dublin City University (D.C.U). The third issue of Post was launched this week, there is  .pdf copy available to interested readers now available online,  I have linked it at the base of this piece. In Michael…