Common Concerns: John Clare & Other Ghosts
There’s a strangeness to singing in a language you don’t understand, akin, perhaps, to the…
Author Ciarán O’Rourke
Ciarán O’Rourke
A winner of the Cúirt New Irish Writing Award and the Fish Poetry Prize, Ciarán O'Rourke is an Irish poet, now based in Galway. His first collection, The Buried Breath, was issued by The Irish Pages Press in 2018 and highly commended by the Forward Foundation. He runs the online archive of poetry-themed interviews, www.islandsedgepoetry.net, and his second collection, Phantom Gang, is forthcoming..
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…