I am more than a bit excited writing this post. Five years ago, I attended my first ever advanced poetry workshop in Bantry despite chancing my arm applying for it. I remember I had just won a local radio poetry competition and I rang the West Cork Literary Festival Box Office to see if it was […]
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Reading in Carlow College
Today as part of Carlow College’s conference on migration, I was at the launch of an excellent art exhibition from Poland, where photographs of remains of the Holocaust are showing. Tomi Reichenthal, a Holocaust survivor, originally from Slovakia launched the exhibition and told his story to the audience. After the launch, there was a poetry […]
America is not the World
I am delighted to have a poem published in Pankhearst in their journal titled “America is not the World.” I was also very pleased to note that it was one of my upcoming poems in Jewtown that was chosen. Thanks to the editor Rachel Nix who selected my poem and I’m looking forward to getting […]
Mention in the Irish Times
It was lovely to get a mention in the Irish Times today from Ciaran Carty in his article about the Hennessy Awards. He also gave a bit of a plug to my book, which was a nice bonus! I can’t believe it’s already a year since I won the poetry section of the Hennessy Awards and it’s […]
To Trouble the Living Stream: Reading
I was delighted to be back in Visual Carlow with the Carlow Writers’ Cooperative for this poetry reading. I read a few newer poems about Irish male identity. I have been very busy with edits to Jewtown as well as work stuff so I haven’t had much of a chance to attend the group. It was […]
Who is the Irish Man?
I’m trying to write some new material, which was kicked off from a discussion in my local writing group a few months ago. Our group were lucky to be joined by Pat Parks, an American professor, who worked with us on a project inspired by W. B. Yeats. On our first session, Pat simply asked […]
Lost and found
It’s amazing what props up in proper book shops. I found this collection by David Marcus, a second generation of Jewtown and best known for his work in the Irish Literary scene. This book was in Chapters in Parnell Square in Dublin and was published by New Island in 2007.
A poetic place
When the weather is good, there’s no better place for poetic inspiration than the bogs and strands of Co. Mayo. What a way to spend World Poetry Day.
Editing
Editing is a necessary job for any writer. I was given a tip to print out and lay out all my work on the floor and go through it by someone a few years ago. Tonight, my job was to kill some of my babies and eight poems have been given the chop. I found […]
Meeting Isaac Sandler
One of my poems in Jewtown is called, Meeting Isaac Sandler, but who was he? According to the 1901 census, there were 2 Isaac Sandlers in Ireland, both living in Cork. One lived in the Hibernian Buildings and the other lived around the corner in Elizabeth Terrace. The one I refer to in the poem […]