What a joy and honour it was to gather with friends, family, former colleagues and other writers at Notional Space in Vancouver on March 24th for “An Afternoon of P.W. [...]

It is my friend Marc Lindy who came up with the idea of a PWB readings event. Marc is a phenomenon. He is a recently retired podiatrist, but a very [...]

Readers may recall that a plan was previously on foot to bring out, as a freestanding chapbook, a novella in verse I have written entitled Deliverance, 1961: A Novella in [...]

I am indebted to Alan Humm — the editor of Britain’s One Hand Clapping magazine — for publishing my poem, “Benedizione”, in his journal’s Christmas issue. “Benedizione” is manifestly a [...]

I want to thank the poetry editors at the Galway Review for having the courage to publish my flailing and furious poem about gun violence in America and its impotent, [...]

Nick Laird is one of the finest poets writing in the English language today. He has been described as “exceptionally gifted” by Paul Muldoon. Among his many accolades and honours [...]

I am both humbled and honoured to have had my flash fiction story, “Little Vova” — which was awarded Streetlight Magazine‘s Flash Fiction Prize for 2023 — also nominated by [...]

What a thrill it was to have an excerpt from one of the poems from my second collection, Idiolect, selected for inclusion in the 2023/2024 Poetry in Transit program. The [...]

It was a happy day indeed here when word arrived from Streetlight Magazine editors and flash fiction judges, Erika Raskin and Mary Esselman, that my 295-word story, “Little Vova”, has [...]

One Hand Clapping is an extraordinary online and print literary magazine published in the UK. Its editor, Alan Humm (a fine poet himself), has made it the journal’s mandate to [...]

“Training Wheels Off” is a poem I wrote in tribute to my now adult daughter. It addresses the time when she was a young girl learning to ride a two-wheeled [...]

Readers may recall that I recently began writing a series of poems that voice the sometimes controversial and always dyspeptic views of an ageing curmudgeons who hails from the North [...]

Stanza Cannon is a relatively new, first-of-its-kind, “audio zine” published in the USA. In the words of its editor, Andrew Feindt, it is “devoted to continuing humanity’s age-old tradition of [...]

Culture Matters is an online journal published in England that is left-leaning, politically, and features socially progressive literary content. I am grateful to its editor, Mike Quille, for agreeing to [...]

What an honour it was for me to give a public reading of some of my poetry on March 13th at New York’s Parkside Lounge as part of the lounge’s Inspired Word NYC series. [...]

Wow. Two speaking opportunities within the space of two days. I was most grateful to give the Author Talk for the Canadian Authors Association on February 8, 2023. The subject [...]

Donal O’Hanlon is a celebrated Irish actor and director who heads and performs with the highly regarded Newpoint Players theatre group in Newry—a city that straddles Co Down and Co Armagh in Northern [...]

I will admit that when London Grip assigned me Boris Dralyuk’s first collection, My Hollywood and Other Poems, for review, the assignment seemed daunting. Boris Dralyuk is a scholar of great renown, a highly sought-after [...]

I couldn’t have been more thrilled to learn that some of my poetry was to included in a live reading event  held on October 13, 2022 at 7:00 pm at the [...]

The An Áitiúil Anthology is a joint venture between Dublin literary publishers The Madrigal Press and The Martello. It explores the notion of “locality” from many different perspectives. The anthology was [...]

Being an early convert to the writing of flash fiction, I am intrigued by and attracted to highly compressed literary forms. I have won competitions (such as the Scottish Book [...]

I’ve been having some fun trying to write some poems in the voice of a fictional curmudgeon from the North of England. The series is tentatively entitled “The Curmudgeon’s Diary”. [...]

The indefatigable Colin Dardis is a force of nature in the poetry scene of Northern Ireland. He has published his own work widely, does readings and workshops frequently and comes up with [...]

I have long admired Skylight 47 magazine. The journal had its origins in Galway City’s “Over the Edge” reading series and, since 2013, it has been publishing high quality poetry, [...]

One rightly approaches social media platforms cautiously and with a degree of trepidation, but the experience for me of stepping onto the Twitter train in March 2022 has been mostly [...]

I am immensely honoured to have my poem, “There Was Fire in Magherafelt”, reappear in vol. 44, no. 1 (2022) of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. (The cover of a recent [...]

Who can resist a book of poems with a title like Age of the Microwave Dinner? Colin Hassard’s sense of humour shines brightly through in the title of his first [...]

Síofra McSherry is a prodigiously talented poet originally from Northern Ireland who now lives and works in Germany. She has had a modest number of poems appear in online outlets [...]

Each year the British literary magazine, The High Window, publishes lengthy critical pieces addressing featured UK and American poets. Those articles commonly comprise an in-depth review of the featured poet’s most [...]