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Poem of the Week | Submission Window Now Open
After a brief hiatus, HeadStuff Poetry is back! Our submission window is now open for our Poem of the Week Spring/Summer Series 2022, and we want to hear from you. Submissions are open until March 31st 2022.
What are we looking for?
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Gardensea | An Interview with a fireside bard
I spoke with Kevin C. Olohan during the week, host of Fireside, the Irish storytelling podcast. Kevin’s collection Gardensea is available now (here). Not even the wild winds of storm Barra could stop us talking about the force of nature…
Tanka Sequence | Tomorrow’s Creatures by Gabriel Rosenstock
Tomorrow’s Creatures
A series of tanka in Irish and English, in 5-7-5-7-7 syllables, in response to artwork by Masood Hussain (Kashmir)
by Gabriel Rosenstock
neacha a thiocfaidh
an daonnaithe 'bheidh iontu
ó – cad…
Poem of the Week | All That’s Left by PD Lyons
All That's Left
By PD Lyons
Dust in the corners
Pale light, loose boards,
Soft paper pages partially filled.
So small
The world with all its bigness
Could have so easily passed by.
Will we,…
Poem of the Week | Echoes in Your Absence by Oisín Moloughney
Echoes in Your Absence
By Oisín Moloughney
familiar voices echo
the way many hands
permeate dangling halls.
you seem irreplaceable,
exotic & shameless in
your absence.
even here I remember
your violent…
Poem of the Week | How to count as a child (correctly) by Alice Kinsella
How to count as a child (correctly)
By Alice Kinsella
Count patterns on the wallpaper
at night, ignore the stars outside
in their billions, as many as grains
of microplastic on every beach.
Count the…
Poem of the Week | The Unevolved Cactus by Lauren Anne Cassidy
The Unevolved Cactus
By Lauren Anne Cassidy
I take on love
Like a boat
Takes on water
And hold it
In my body
Like the belly
Of a cactus.
It does not help me
During the dry months
Or drought – …
‘Don’t Be Afraid of Writing the Thing’ | Interview with Jen Hughes
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Scottish poet Jen Hughes. Hughes lives in Glasgow where she is a writer and co-host of open mic night 'Words and Music' with Gayle Smith. She is also a regular contributor to Outlet Publishing's …
UNBOUND | Six Poems by Kevin Graham
Locus
By Kevin Graham
You ask for clarity so I set
a glass of water on the counter,
look at the clock and count
backwards from a hundred
with my eyes closed, listening
to you breathing very slowly
from a…
Poem of the Week | The Rover by Jen Hughes
The Rover
By Jen Hughes
Opportunity
Has been lost to the dust storms.
Spirit crashed
On the punishing terrain below.
So now there’s just me Curiosity
Finding out as much as I can About this cold, aloof…