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Reflections from Eda Payne

There was a time when thoughts
were clear and led to productive
musings. Continue reading →

Seasonal Poems

Vermeer would have made much of it Continue reading →

Thomas Kinsella (1928-2021)

Many of his poems are celebrated and loved for their profound personal candour and sensitivity, but he has also been a poet of searing political and public critical insight. Continue reading →

A Poem from Diane Fahey

Yet fifty years later
Seán Ó Conaill could tell, word for word,
a story he’d heard, as a boy,
read from a journal. Continue reading →

The world seemed clear. The questions started later in life or when we went to the cities and were asked to convert and change our language to English, sometimes politely sometimes not so much. We got used to the requests, ‘can you please say that in English?’ or the statements ‘We speak English in here’ or ‘I’m afraid we don’t speak that language here’. Continue reading →

Poems by David Harris

Today, on our morning swim together.
I watch her dive, hair streaming,
at home among the waves…
You won’t find these in the bush.
Thistles, nettles, tumbleweed,
three-cornered jacks, horehound, Continue reading →