Anti-Laureate of the People's Republic of Cork

Often when people attend a poetry workshop at a festival they bring their best, well-made, well-honed, unpublished piece, just to show ...

Spoken at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival, February 2012 I’m completely baffled that Gregory Orr is not better known outside the United St...

http://www.sujikwockkim.com/ There were over 1700 poems entered this year and judging the competition was a very educational ex...

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...