Anti-Laureate of the People's Republic of Cork

I’m judging the O’ Donoghue Poetry Competition at the moment. I’m charged with choosing 13 prizewinning poems from between one and two thou...

If the way to poetry is blocked to you by an elite that elite and you are one and the same. What is poetry? To a seasoned reader of co...

The Frustrations of Minor Capitalists No. 3 She sported tattoos of Christ’s wounds. On the beach while she sunbathed strangers would stick ...

'The Comforting Pleasures of Sadness' has been an unlucky poem. It was to be the title poem to a full-length collection which Salmon...

S/Found Poem The healthy don’t know what they’re missing. It seems like someone is cracking a whip inside my ears each time I move my eyes s...

Click on the poster to read the pdf of the festival brochure (2.5mb), finished just today. Photos, bio notes, poems and more. Two Novelists ...

The recent sales success of Soundings is actually a reminder of its total failure as an educational instrument. Walk int...