Poetry: Michaela Brady
Uaigneas (Dán do m’athair) Crows befriend the bread-handed boy, Squawk and battle for a bite.…
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Poetry: Nicholas Battey
Last Breath of Leaves Cup a pear, hear it abscise, number the days until ripe;…
The Candidates Explain
The Candidate Explains after Charlotte Nichols MP I didn’t know the meaning of “incursion” or…
Parallel Weekend
I hadn’t heard from you since Wednesday, the morning before you flew to Copenhagen. You’d…
Three Parables / Short Tales
ABOUT A GIRL AND HER DATE OF BIRTH Once upon a time, there lived a…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Irish Rail Dublin, that old whore, with her piss -stained pavements Abruptly transforms into a…
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https://youtu.be/e9-RxW-Xm50 live long enuff yoolsee enuff war – yool think this is not what life…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
Memorial to Myself I have been away toasting tables lined with the pricier variety of…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Faking It When Cleopatra rolled Out of the rug, she thought: Don’t worry! Even if…
Poetry: Edward Clarke
At Rudy’s Bar, Alassio (After Thomas Hardy) – O how could I order that tuna…
Girl Without Mercy
My father was a French lumberjack. That’s just a joke. People don’t always know I’m…
Ballad of Lucy Kryton
Ballad of Lucy Kryton “There will not be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime”,…
Ecstasy of Truth Finally Spoken
Kevin Higgins’s sixth poetry collection under the sardonic title Ecstatic starts with a dedication to…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Kyrie Rotten fruit, rotten root. Hands up Don’t shoot. Kyrie eleison. By the waters of…
And the Flesh was Made Word
Through Fernando Pessoa the flesh was made word. Reminiscent of the renowned Chinese painter Wu…
The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot
The prize painting in the National Gallery of Ireland is, without a doubt, Caravaggio’s depiction…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Poems in the Manner of the Devil After Alexandar Ristović (1933-1994) If you can’t chew…
Into the River
I can barely make out Richard´s handwriting on the piece of torn paper. “Second left”…
Poetry: Lucinda Kowol
Mowing How dare you go, leaving me alone to do the mowing? You used…