Literature

Edwardian Baubles By Noel King We found them packed in an attic of things – thin cardboard boxes, disintegrating tissue paper, delicate heirlooms, yet vivid colours. We thought it would be a sin to hang them on this year’s tree. My wife…

I’m a young adult writer, mostly. Which means that whenever anyone asks what I write, they get . . . this Look. (And a bit of a head tilt.) And then they ask, ‘have you ever thought about writing . . .  a real book?’ And then they might…

Dance By Sophia Thakur X UnFOLD https://youtu.be/KvZ2lf47BiQ Brought to you by live curators Lyrix Organix, UnFOLD is an acclaimed 360 live concept led by some of Britain's foremost young poets, rappers and change makers - inviting them to…

Ciarán Hodgers is an Irish poet working and living in the UK. He is the Sean Dunne National Young Writer 2010, an International Pangaea Poetry Slam Champion 2015 and the Word War 3 Slam Champion. In 2014 he produced a spoken word EP titled…

There is a diffidence in the breezy dismissal of this collection’s title So Long, Calypso, that is at odds with the poems within, which are anything but diffident or dismissive. In this collection, Liz McSkeane treats us to poems that…

Tom By Niamh Boyce I’ve gone and broke the spine of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Facebook tagged you in Sligo and for that second, that fraction of- well, I thought you were alive and bawled at the good of it all  me, here making…

Knowledge - A Lifeless Rib by Róisín Power Hackett A cut-up poem using Wallace Stevens’ Sunday Morning and John Milton’s Paradise Lost Cut-up writing is word collage. In 1916, Tristian Tzara, a Dadist wrote How To Write A Dadist Poem:…

Canticle is one of the first releases from Turas Press, of which the author, Liz McSkeane, is a founder. Turas no doubt hopes to emulate the success of upstart groups like Tramp and Stinging Fly, whose select back catalogue have won awards…

Erasure Poems By Ana Prundaru I skimmed pages of non-fiction books and weather archives, until I found one or two words that spoke to me, in the sense that they captured an emotion or topic I was hoping to bring to life. Next, I chose…

For Poetry Day Ireland 2018, HeadStuff.org launched a brand new poetry competition to celebrate this fantastic day of poetic activity around the country. This year the theme of the day was ‘Surprises’. For our competition we chose the…