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Magic Words Poetry Reading
It can be lonely in lockdown. It's a state we're getting used to, but it doesn't get any easier. I think it's important to communicate through the channels that are still available to us and to cherish every precious word.
Eggshell Flesh – A Poem for National Poetry Day
Happy National Poetry Day! This year's theme is 'Vision', which put me in mind of one of my most popular poems, 'Eggshell Flesh'.
Perspective – Poetry Reading
Could the way we look at things change what happens to us?
Welcome to 'Perspective' - Episode 2 in a new series of...
Nature Heals – Poetry Reading
When we are held still, let us be held close to all that grows . . .
Day Trip Philosophy – a Poem for Dad
Day Trip Philosophy is a poem that remembers my Dad. It focuses on the memory of a day trip to Gliffaes Country...
Let Down – Poetry Reading
Let Down is a lockdown poem sprinkled with fairytale magic, ready to tell a story in verse and tell it out loud . . .
We Speak – a Poem for Parents
‘We Speak’ is a poem for mums and dads. As parents, our days are already tightly bound by routine – early starts,...
Attracta Fahy – Live for Fly on the Wall – Review
Attracta Fahy's chapbook, 'Dinner in the Fields' has been my close companion in lockdown. I have lived the East Galway landscape through the words - all that golden warmth, long summers, the texture of grass, hay and stone . . . In Killererin, graveyards lose their spectral frames, become part of the community, and through childhood memory they will live forever.
Lost Summer – Poem
The sea is more than foam and see through water. It is memory and it is living. Although I live quite far...