I seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole of poetry in recent months, with several publications in various magazines and webzines and one anthology. I am still hawking a few short stories about the place, plus my novel, but with little (no) success. However, it is doing my heart good to see some of my poems in print.
In response to a prompt from Colin Dardis, I had a poem published in one of his 24-hour challenge chapbooks on the theme of Mystery. You can download the chapbook for free here. And The Madrid Review published a poem called ‘Patient, the Trees’ in volume two, issue six of their magazine shortly after that.
Two poems about Gaza were published in an anthology called Poems for Protest in March, published by Rough Diamond Poetry, and available here. My prize-winning poem, ‘Unmoored’ was picked up by Flare and published in issue 30 (April), and another one featured in issue 31 (July).
The High Window took three more in May. Sadly, it was announced that it would be the final issue, but you can still read the issue online here. I was honoured to have two poems chosen for the June edition of the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing page. I’ve included a screenshot of them on the right here.
In August, The Starbeck Orion published three poems, which you can read here. And finally, I’m delighted to have another scheduled to appear in Drawn to the Light at the end of this month. I reckon I might stick with this poetry malarkey for the foreseeable…
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