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Poem of the Week | I see you now by Aoife Finnegan
Eyes closing for a minute, just resting-
the mountain a dim shadow on a green lake,
shade worn lightly-
We didn’t even notice
not until years later
when it wasn’t as easy to
search a face
without being found out,
no…
Poem of the Week | The Ape Enclosure by John Grey
One minute, a docile troop,
next a scrap,
then the fury of a roused mob,
breaking off into different grudges,
many blows, many scratches.
Then the silverback
works his way to the center,
pulls the shrieking pugilists…
Poetry Review | Living Water
Living Water is the debut collection from Bernie Crawford. The collection is laid out in three sections, and negotiates themes of womanhood, memory and mortality. Crawford’s time spent living and working in Lesotho, Zambia and Tanzania…
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…
Karl MacDermott Talks Cabbage
58% Cabbage, a humour fiction novel from Karl MacDermott about a ‘sit-down nobody who tries stand-up comedy’ has just being released.
Last week HeadStuff sat down remotely and talked to Karl about the process of writing, stand-up…
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave a review
Mark Mordue’s book is a bold and searching account of Nick Cave’s early years, revealing the genesis of the artist he would become.
We all think we know Nick Cave, the slinky vampire, ex-junkie, antipodean raised on American gothic…
It started in a Hospital: My Writing Life
It started in Hospital: My Writing Life
Francesco Pacifico, a novelist based in Rome, wrote Coronavirus Dispatches for the New York literary magazine, n+1. Number eight in the series was entitled A Breakup Letter to my Writing…
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,…