Moyra Donaldson

Here is a link to two new poems published by the fantastic on-line magazine The HU. Solitude was written during my stay in Cill Rialaig. ...

Ten days in the stunning surroundings of Cill Rialaig, thanks to the Irish Writers Centre and what an experience it was. The solitude was qu...

It has been a long time since I posted anything on here. Life has been complicated at times over the last couple of years and this summer I ...

I am very pleased to have been invited to be part of this project, and now that I am off work for a few weeks, I will be able to throw mysel...

When the children were young and I was younger than I am now, I was always busy and yet there was always time to write - late at night or in...

Mother who has been my broken bowl            my holy grail my long silence                         my spoken truth my tiny bou...

I'm so lucky to have a view of fields and trees from my kitchen window and I love to sit at the table and just observe. Often what I ...

There was a taste of Spring in the air today and I was thinking about my mother, Nessa and her sister Muriel, now also gone. The daffodils a...

I'm hoping to write a series of pieces about my identity as a Northern Irish person and poet - this is the first of them, sparked by a r...

It has been a busy year for me with readings and workshops. I love having these opportunities to connect through poetry, so I'm looking ...