Author: simon

I was very grateful to be sent a copy of my great grandmother’s book, Tears of Laughter. Esther Morris (née Cristol) was born in Cork and published three short plays. I mentioned this fact at the launch of the Representations of Jews in Irish Literature exhibition in Waterford to Barry Montgomery, one of the lead […]

I received my copy of Poetry Ireland Review today and was pleased to see a poem by Thomas McCarthy about the closing of the Cork Synagogue. I was also happy to see the review of Jewtown by Dawn Woods, which was very complimentary.

I’ll be reading in Cork on Bank Holiday Monday as part of the Ó’Bhéal series. I’m looking forward to reading with Stephanie Conn again and taking part in the various parts of the night. It sounds like a fun evening.

I was delighted to be interviewed on Southside Radio in Dundrum recently on their religious affairs programme, Vision. Their programme was focused loosely on the Passover festival but I was in to read some of my poems from Jewtown and discuss what it was like to be raised Jewish in Ireland. I read 3 poems […]

I’m delighted to have been shortlisted for the Strokestown Poetry Competition and as part of this, I’m been given a 15 minute slot on Saturday to read some of my poetry. I’m going to read from Jewtown and might try out one or two that I don’t usually read. My shortlisted poem is called Conception and […]

I’m very much enjoying this “long sheet” of Flare which featured some fantastic poets from Ireland and beyond. 

Have you ever wished you could read a poem while looking in the window of a shop selling blinds?   Thanks so much to Dominic Taylor for allowing me to be part of Limerick’s Poetry Month, where poems about Limerick are put up around the city. My poem about Father Creagh, he of the Limerick […]