Very cool to read my poem 'The Consolations of Silence are Few' at the digital launch of the latest issue of Poetry Ireland Review, broadcast on twitter. Huge thanks to Eoin Rogers Publications Assistant at Poetry Ireland. Watch Here
Every March, hundreds (well it seems like hundreds), of Redwings gather in our woods, preparing to fly home to Iceland and Scandinavia after over wintering here. In 2018 we had a severe weather system
“…a poem is a way of happening, a mouth.” (W.H. Auden). Warm thanks to Ruth Mckee, editor at Books Ireland, for the invitation to add my filmpoem ‘Living’ to poetry:happening, a now blog on the Books
My poem 'The Quicken Tree' is on the Rowan, a tree which according to Celtic folklore has magical qualities - the Rowan is represented in second month on the Celtic Tree Calendar. My poem is dedicated