Before I get my hands on book 2, Ah, Men! I’ll be reading as part of the Bray Literary Festival. I’ll be reading with some superstars of the literary scene. I can’t wait!
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Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Really chuffed to get an honourable mention in this competition. Over 2000 entries and got in the top 10. The poem is Man Talk and will be in my upcoming book later this year.
The North
This very fine magazine cane in the post today. Great to see so many familiar faces in it. I have a review in it where I checked out books by John O’Donnell, Geraldine Mitchell and Noel Monahan. It’s the first book review I’ve done since school.
Allingham Festival Poetry Competition
Happy to have come second place in the annual Allingham Poetry Festival. I’ve entered this a few times and never got anywhere! Delighted also that it was one of my new poems that was successful.
The Tricky Second Collection
Some exciting news – at least for me – Doire Press will publish my second collection in late 2019! Jewtown will have a new sibling, which has been brewing for the last few years and is nearly ready to unleash. My aim is to make the poems I’ve written a lot better, yank out the […]
Troubadour Poetry Prize 2017
I was delighted to be one of the winning entries to the Troubadour Poetry Prize this year. I won a 2-year subscription to the Manhattan Review so I am looking forward to that. The poem I entered is a relatively new one, Man Talk. I have only recently changed the title and this was the first […]
Doire Press on Tour!
Tonight, I headed to Kilkenny for the first of the Doire Press Reading Events with David Butler and Annemarie NíCurrain. It took place in the lovely Stone House Bookshop. After buying and reading Annemarie’s poems, it was great to get a further insight to the poems and she told us the background to some that […]
Debut Collections
I went to Dublin to see Brian Kirk, Emma McKervey and Amanda Bell read from their respective first collections. Lisa Frank from Doire Press interviewed the three poets and each read a couple of poems from their collections. I also took a visit to Books Upstairs and bought three more books.
California-bound
I have been asked to be one of the 16 Irish writers to travel to Los Gatos in California for the 2017 Irish Writers’ Festival. I will be taking part in two readings/discussions. The first is centred around the touring of the Representation of Jews in Irish Literature, which will be exhibited. The second is a reading for New […]
Tears of Laughter – My great grandmother’s book
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 […]