Winter 2016/2017
My poem 'Ghazal of Exodus' has been accepted by The Stinging Fly, which first published my poetry in 2012.
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Delighted with how The Lost Library Book is looking, and it is now available for preorder from The Onslaught Press.
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Participating in the Readathon for International Women's Day in the Irish Writers' Centre on Saturday 11 March.
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I will be guest reader at Ó Bhéal on Monday 27th February.
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My poem 'Cochlea' has been accepted for publication by Skylight 47.
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3 February – I did a presentation on psychogeography, with readings from Undercurrents, for fifth-year geography students in The High School, Rathgar.
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January 2017
The Lost Library Book, The Onslaught Press, Spring 2017
My children's book illustrated by Alice Durand-Wietzel, will be published by The Onslaught Press this Spring, and launched in Marsh's Library on 6 May 2017.
'The remarkable true story of a forgotten library book that was returned to Marsh's Library after 100 years. Written with elegance and grace, it's a fascinating tale for book lovers young and old.' – Sarah Webb, Award-winning Writer, and Children’s Curator of the Mountains to the Sea Book Festival
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My poem 'A Small Attendance' has been accepted for the April issue of The Incubator.
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December 2016
Poetry Ireland Review 120 published, including my poem 'Complicit'.
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The January issue of Contemporary Haibun Online went online on 19 December, including my haibun ‘So Long’, which is about Leonard Cohen and gannets.
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Cyphers 82 arrived on 2 December, with my poem 'Bumblebees' in it.
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My childhood memoir piece, 'Bad Weather Days', has been accepted by Douglas Glover for publication next spring in Numéro Cinq.
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My haibun about Leonard Cohen and gannets, 'So Long', has been accepted for publication by Contemporary Haibun Online later this month.
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Rachel Falconer's great collection Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on her Work, in which my essay 'Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba' appears, is to be digitised by Edinburgh Scholarship Online.
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Poetry Ireland Review 120, Vona Groarke’s last issue as editor, will include my poem 'Complicit'.
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I was Poetry Section Editor of CBI's Reading Guide 2016/17
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My 'Ballad of Mary Anne Cadden' was published in the October issue of political and cultural magazine The Village, and featured in the 'Rise and Repeal' broadsheet.
