Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan

Butler's awards for poetry include the Féile Filíochta, Brendan Kennelly, Ted McNulty, Maria Edgeworth, Baileborough, Poetry Ireland/Trocaire and Phizfest prizes.

Elegant and well-crafted poems from one of Scotland's foremost writers, Dilys Rose.

The earthly and the mythic are in constant interplay in these poems by Mary Madec.

Duffy’s vibrant poetry allows us to travel through a whole spectrum of colour, whilst standing still.

Well versed in Western literature, a fact borne out in the quality and flexibility of his style, O’Rourke’s poems evoke and challenge a millenia old tradition.

Quinn is a flawless writer. She draws on the materials life has given her to create a pared but visionary poetry.

There’s a sharp-eye and lexical fluency in the work of Alex Josephy. Italian appellations and clever depictions of larger than life plants, create imaginary worlds evocative of Alice.

Thought provoking as a weeklong convention on the history of the brown paper bag in a city without cocktails, massage parlours, or even as much as a cup of tea.

We’re connected to thousands of years of poetic tradition with Kirk’s fidelity to form. The melodic movement of his visual verse takes us from turbulent sestina to the resting place of Noah’s Ark.

Kelly is a poet of depth and flexibility who interrogates his surroundings, drawing intertextually on a variety of cultural references.

The Loss of Yellowhammers’ by John D. Kelly Published by Summer Palace Press, Donegal ISBN: 978-0-9954529-4-7 There is a pleasure to be occasioned in the poetry of...

Johnstone uses the architecture of history and nostalgia to interrogate the trust we place in our eyes and ears. Vowel by consonant his poetry reveals a passion for language that captures light and reflects life.

Coniston’s explanatory verse enriches the dialogue between the poetic and the scientific.

Geoghegan liberates sound in poems that celebrate the rich tapestry of gypsy folklore and culture.

We tune into memory throughout our lives. Castle’s poems act as a counterweight to their emotional power.

With a touch of the supernatural and sublime, Gethin writes of duplexities - of the sea and of the self.

Lives lost, nature, the nurturing closeness of a parent - Marion’s poems often begin with memory, then multiply.

Pitt-kethley’s intimate portrayals of spanish street scenes speak to larger socio-political issues within contemporary society.

Poet and BAFTA Award winning TV producer, Angela Graham’s imaginative eloquence of language, embodies an exemplary ‘at-homeness’ in both the universal and the particular.

David Linklater’s pamphlet ‘Black Box’ was published with Speculative Books in 2018.

A. M. Cousins' work was shortlisted in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition 2019.

Sharon Larkin's pamphlet was published by Indigo Dreams in 2019.

Kay Ritchie’s work is widely published in magazines and anthologies and has performed at various events.

Gillie Robic's first collection, Swimming Through Marble, was shortlisted and published in 2016 by Live Canon, who in October 2019, published her second collection, Lightfalls.

Oz Hardwick's chapbook 'Learning to Have Lost' (Canberra: IPSI/Recent Work, 2018) won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for Poetry.

In this set of poem, Marjory Woodfield takes inspiration from travel.

Poet, Mantz Yorke takes his readers on a tour with these poems inspired by the landscape.

Emerging poet, Nick Browne is struvk by the changes brought about by lockdown.

Dominic Fisher's was the winner of the Bristol Poetry Prize. His collection The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dead was published by The Blue Nib in March 2019.

Amanda Bell's first poetry collection First the Feathers (Doire Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award.

Maeve McKenna’s work has been placed in several international poetry competitions. She enjoys writing immensely, almost as much as she does avoiding it.

Belinda Cooke's poetry includes Stem (the High Window Press, 2019) and her Days of the Shorthanded Shovelists forthcoming (Salmon Poetry).

Eveline Pye's poem ‘Mosi-Oa-Tunya’ was chosen for the Twenty Best Scottish Poems of that Year. Her new collection ‘STEAM’, will be published by Red Squirrel Press 2021.

Poet Berni Dwan was placed second in the Johnathan Swift Awards and was shortlisted for the Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award.

FESTIVAL OF ORIGINSafter Primo Levi Back in time, after forty days of rain Thousands of animal species drowned. For months, world was quiet, dark. Water lapped on breathless...

Poet Alun Robert’ work has been published widely, in 2019, he was a featured writer of the Federation of Writers Scotland.

Gill Lambert’s first collection Tadaima was published by Yaffle in 2019

Michael Durack’s publications include a memoir, Saved to Memory: Lost to View (2016) and a collection, Where It Began ( Revival, 2017.)