Poem: Fragments of a Litany
Fragments of a Litany Gaza, 2023-24 Grieve with the butchered gods of love for Layan…
Author Ciarán O’Rourke
Ciarán O’Rourke
Ciarán’s second collection, Phantom Gang, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2023. His first collection, The Buried Breath, was highly commended by the Forward Foundation for Poetry in 2019. Both are published by The Irish Pages Press.
A Poem for Refaat Alareer
A Poem for Refaat Alareer In the poem your butchers fear to breathe, the murdered…
Bliain an Áir – ‘The year of slaughter’ 1740-41
Bliain an Áir ‘The Year of Slaughter’, 1740-41 Around the earth, a warring, wooden sea…
Common Concerns: John Clare & Other Ghosts
There’s a strangeness to singing in a language you don’t understand, akin, perhaps, to the…
Poetry: Ciarán O’Rourke
Dutch Masters An age away, the scented evergreens are still, a lucent wave commits to…
Poem: Questioning A Tank
Questioning a Tank Into the shocked, shucked shell of the hospital at Kunduz, which for…
Nightmaring America: A Love Story
For a number of years now, I’ve been convinced (too fervently, in the opinion of…
Chambí’s World: Martín Chambi (1891-1973)
Before Ireland’s third pandemic lockdown began, in December 2020, I paid a visit to my…