Our March 2020 Poem of the Month comes from John McAuliffe’s forthcoming collection, The Kabul Olympics, which will be published on 2nd April 2020. Cold War A day of days: I roll myself into the sandy dune, hiding from where the others have gone, on my own, with...
Our first Poem of the Month for 2020 comes from Marine Cloud Brightening by Medbh McGuckian which was published in September 2019. The Seed Mantra: A Gift Poem Sweeping up a leaf that blew in last November I thought, there will be no more autumns, I shall have...
Our November Poem of the Month is in memory of Tom Mac Intyre who died on 31 October 2019. ‘Poetry’ by Tom Mac Intyre is translated from ‘An Fhilíocht’ by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Poetry Almost spent the small bird landed on my window-sill,...
‘Paul Cézanne, The Stove in the Studio, c.1865’ by Ciaran Carson from his forthcoming collection Still Life is our October Poem of the Month. Paul Cézanne, The Stove in the Studio, c.1865 Since I saw it first in 1993 how often have I thought of Cézanne’s...
‘The Visited’ by Peter Sirr from his new Poetry Book Society Recommended collection The Gravity Wave is our August Poem of the Month The Visited Someone else is here now not me not anyone I know someone stiff-spirited and unfree ghost of a girl forgotten...
‘Self-storage ‘ by Vona Groarke from her new collection Double Negative is our July Poem of the Month Self-storage When I send my past to the lock-up in fifteen numbered, see-through boxes that two men lug down five flights and hoist into an unmarked van I...
