Category Archives: Poetry

Mary Deely is a graduate of the MA (Writing) in NUI Galway 2018. Recent published work includes An Ocean for the Old in Ropes Journal. A short film she wrote, Stalking Colin Farrell, was broadcast on RTÉ. My Trusty Steed … Continue reading →

Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet and writer living on the south coast of Sydney. Her debut poetry collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ was published this year by Wakefield Press, Adelaide and my memoir, ‘Poking seaweed … Continue reading →

Féilim James is a writer from Dublin. His poetry and prose through both English and Irish have earned a number of awards and publications. Journals which have published Féilim’s writing include A New Ulster, Icarus, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, … Continue reading →

Matt Mooney. Born in Kilchreest, Co. Galway in 1943, he has lived in Listowel since 1966. His four collections of poems are: Droving(2003), Falling Apples (2010), Earth to Earth (2015) and The Singing Woods (2017). Some of his poems have been included in: The Galway Review,Feasta, First Cut, West 47, … Continue reading →

GERRY MC DONNELL was born in Dublin in 1950. He has had five collections of poetry published. He has an enduring interest in Irish Jewry and in the Irish poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) and has published extensively and written … Continue reading →

Ciarán O’Rourke was born in 1991 and is based in Dublin. Winner of the Lena Maguire/Cúirt New Irish Writing Award 2009, the Westport Poetry Prize 2015, and the Fish Poetry Prize 2016, Ciarán’s poetry has been widely published. His first … Continue reading →

Benjamin Keatinge is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He has edited Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy, forthcoming from Cork University Press. From 2007 to 2016 he worked as Associate Professor of English … Continue reading →

Formerly a professor of English, William Ruleman now devotes himself to writing and painting. His most recent books include the poetry collection From Rage to Hope (White Violet Books, 2016) and his translations of Hermann Hesse’s Early Poems (Cedar Springs … Continue reading →