Poems, Haibun & Essays

‘Development’, a short haibun about growing up in the 1970s in Ireland, Drifting Sands.

‘This Floating World’ – a travel-themed haibun ranging from Co. Wexford to France, Morocco to the Crimea – can be read on Contemporary Haibun Online.

Amanda Bell writes about the influences behind her new collection Riptide for the Irish Times online.

‘Donald Teskey, Ballinglen’, from Riptide, The Phare, August 2021

Three poems in The Blue Nib, July 2020 (‘Society’, ‘Just Being’, and ‘Learning to Crawl’)

‘Lisbon’, The Ofi Press

‘Points’ from First the Feathers, The Irish Times (poem on a shortlist of four for Irish Poem of the Year 2017 in the Irish Book Awards).

‘First the Feathers’ and ‘Dreaming’, Doire Press website

Four poems on Poet head

‘Tuam’, Spontaneity

‘Complicit’, Poetry Ireland Review 120, ed. Vona Groarke

‘Solstice’, The Ofi Press Magazine

‘The sleeples s’, The Ofi Press Magazine 55, and read here on Lyric FM's Poetry File

Extracts from Undercurrents(Alba Publishing, 2016), The Clearing

'A Ghazal of Exodus', The Stinging Fly 36.2

'Cockle Picking', Backstory Journal

'Cutlery, the importance of', Other Terrain Journal

'Hoppers and Daddies', Contemporary Haibun Online, republished in The Haibun Journal 1.1

'So Long', Contemporary Haibun Online, later published in First the Feathers

'Striking Out', Haibun Today

'Fur in the Game', Haibun Today

'Bad Weather Days' (memoir), Numéro Cinq

'Trout' (essay), The Clearing