These things come up from time to time on my Facebook page and tens of thousands of people respond to them. I haven’t found out what the point of them is. For example, if I see a particular word first, does it say something about me or does it merely point out that I read […]

This is the Carlow Writers’ Cooperative’s open mic this week where we had a special guest, Mel Perry, from Wales. I read 3 of my poems. I tried to find a poem that was something to do with Wales but the closest I could get was a harbour in Wexford.

I like writing about journeys on trains or going somewhere on a train in my poetry. I’m not into trains or train-spotting in real life though but find the idea of these journeys interesting in creative writing as there’s so much going on in them. They aren’t big things but I often find myself looking […]

Me reading some festive poetry at the 12 Days of Christmas Pop-Up shop. I haven’t really got the whole happy Christmas spirit thing going on as my first poem, Christmas Shopping, was about someone collapsing and dying and the second poem, which is probably going to be called, Secrets, is about being poor.