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Two Poems by David Butler
Butler's awards for poetry include the Féile FilÃochta, Brendan Kennelly, Ted McNulty, Maria Edgeworth, Baileborough, Poetry Ireland/Trocaire and Phizfest prizes.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Two Poems by Dilys Rose
Elegant and well-crafted poems from one of Scotland's foremost writers, Dilys Rose.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poems by Mary Madec
The earthly and the mythic are in constant interplay in these poems by Mary Madec.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Katherine Duffy
Duffy’s vibrant poetry allows us to travel through a whole spectrum of colour, whilst standing still.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Ciarán O’Rourke
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Featured Poet, Leeanne Quinn
Quinn is a flawless writer. She draws on the materials life has given her to create a pared but visionary poetry.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Alex Josephy
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
2 Poems by Kevin Higgins
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 Poems by Brian Kirk
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Tracy Gaughan Reviews ‘The Loss of Yellowhammers’ by John D. Kelly
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...
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 Poems by John D. Kelly
Kelly is a poet of depth and flexibility who interrogates his surroundings, drawing intertextually on a variety of cultural references.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 Poems by Brian Johnstone
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
William Coniston – Three poems
Coniston’s explanatory verse enriches the dialogue between the poetic and the scientific.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Raine Geoghegan – Two poems
Geoghegan liberates sound in poems that celebrate the rich tapestry of gypsy folklore and culture.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Pratibha Castle – Three Poems
We tune into memory throughout our lives. Castle’s poems act as a counterweight to their emotional power.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Rebecca Gethin – Five Poems
With a touch of the supernatural and sublime, Gethin writes of duplexities - of the sea and of the self.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Marion Oxley – Four Poems
Lives lost, nature, the nurturing closeness of a parent - Marion’s poems often begin with memory, then multiply.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Three poems by Fiona Pitt-kethley
Pitt-kethley’s intimate portrayals of spanish street scenes speak to larger socio-political issues within contemporary society.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 Poems by Angela Graham
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
A poem by David Linklater
David Linklater’s pamphlet ‘Black Box’ was published with Speculative Books in 2018.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Two poems by A. M. Cousins
A. M. Cousins' work was shortlisted in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition 2019.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Three Poems by Sharon Larkin
Sharon Larkin's pamphlet was published by Indigo Dreams in 2019.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 poems by Kay Ritchie
Kay Ritchie’s work is widely published in magazines and anthologies and has performed at various events.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 poems by Gillie Robic
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 poems by Oz Hardwick
Oz Hardwick's chapbook 'Learning to Have Lost' (Canberra: IPSI/Recent Work, 2018) won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for Poetry.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Marjory Woodfield
In this set of poem, Marjory Woodfield takes inspiration from travel.
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From the poet, Mantz Yorke
Poet, Mantz Yorke takes his readers on a tour with these poems inspired by the landscape.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Novelist and emerging poet, Nick Browne
Emerging poet, Nick Browne is struvk by the changes brought about by lockdown.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 Poems by Dominic Fisher
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Amanda Bell
Amanda Bell's first poetry collection First the Feathers (Doire Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Maeve McKenna
Maeve McKenna’s work has been placed in several international poetry competitions. She enjoys writing immensely, almost as much as she does avoiding it.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Belinda Cooke
Belinda Cooke's poetry includes Stem (the High Window Press, 2019) and her Days of the Shorthanded Shovelists forthcoming (Salmon Poetry).
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
4 poems by Eveline Pye
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.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Berni Dwan
Poet Berni Dwan was placed second in the Johnathan Swift Awards and was shortlisted for the Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
Poetry by Kate Ennals
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...
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Alun Robert
Poet Alun Robert’ work has been published widely, in 2019, he was a featured writer of the Federation of Writers Scotland.
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Gill Lambert
Gill Lambert’s first collection Tadaima was published by Yaffle in 2019
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Michael Durack
Michael Durack’s publications include a memoir, Saved to Memory: Lost to View (2016) and a collection, Where It Began ( Revival, 2017.)
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