PoetryA Memory of the Boy
A boy is playing alone in the fields lost in the vague transparency they have become. Music seems to emanate from the sea-green of…
PoetryNight Watch
shadows migrate towards the fence-line with its shredded plastic fluttering like the rage of those denied escape they are the formless ones faceless familiars hidden…
PoetryLab Notes
out here on the lough all movement is vertical wind and tide and endless sculling keeping the shore beads constant no passion is productive…
PoetryThis is
there is a duty to repair beautiful things like people silence traumatised dogs and planets to fill the jagged tree-lines of their fractures with gold from…
FictionJack Struggles with an Equation
Jack was tired of endless approximations; he couldn’t quite pin down the things that seemed important —god, explanations, love, even life itself. Nothing was…
FictionSnowfire
All day we laboured under the threat of rain: faced hedges with a slasher, cut weeds with a scythe, mended gaps in fences, shovelled…
PoetryBlackbird
i had an emotion today but don’t know its name there was a blackbird on the lawn 10 feet away head cocked eyeing or…
PoetryOn feeling lonely and dispirited cutting the grass at St Mary Redcliffe Cathedral summer 1972
i had mistaken myself for the graveyard somewhere history closed its circle with an indifferent embrace mundane acknowledgements of life were carved on granite…
PoetryThe Sacrifice
i’m sorry i couldn’t go to your game today i was on the verge of capturing a universe in a grain of sand and…
PoetryShow and Tell
i love my son i love each of my sons i have loved them for a long time i love each and all of…
PoetryThe First Lesson
things i haven’t done since primary school eaten tapioca pudding with rose hip syrup asked a girl the color of her knickers won a…
PoetryNews of the Apocalypse
i dreamt people thought i was dead and naked waitresses served them at my wake when i woke and listened to the news i…
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