Books

  • Books:
  • Carnivorous
  • Blood Horses,
  • Beneath The Ice,
  • Snakeskin Stilettos,
  • The Horse's Nest,
  • Miracle Fruit,
  • Selected Poems,
  • The Goose Tree

About Me

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Poet, creative writing facilitator, editor. Experienced mentor for those working towards a first collection. My publishers are Lagan Press, Belfast and Liberties Press, Dublin, who published my Selected Poems in 2012, The Goose Tree in June 2014. Blood Horses was published in 2018 from Caesura Press www.caesurapress.co.uk and a new collection, Carnivorous was published from Doire Press Spring 2019 www.doirepress.com Awarded an Arts Council of NI Major Artist Award in 2019

Sunday 10 May 2020

The Holding Cell

Another link, this time to a reading I did for the Holding Cell. My first attempt at You Tube live, so please forgive the couple of minutes at the beginning when I don't realise I'm live - just skip past them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKpxjR5ryc

The RTE Poetry Programme

For anyone who might like to listen, a link to the RTE Poetry Programme with interviews and readings from me and eco poet Jane Robinson.


https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/?fbclid=IwAR073r4c-AiOrMYVI4WLwH3MBkwGB-wwZWhKQSYJasHDbjgL0JgwSMv8lU8#/radio1/11180367

Thursday 9 April 2020

In the time of the virus

None of us are where we expected to be in this Spring of 2020 and I'm struggling to make some kind of sense of what it means to be a poet at this time. Every time I seek words, they fail me.