Thrilled to have a poem included in this gorgeous issue of Orphic Press/The Orphic Review and in lovely company too with some of my poetry friends. Huge thanks to the very lovely and very creative editors Róisín Ní Neachtain🇺🇦🇵🇸 and Anne Daly 🤗🥰❤️

Delighted to have my poem, ‘Offering’, in this gorgeous issue of The Orphic Press The poem reflects on a palimpsest of losses (from my adoption to my assault) through the prism of archaeology & is also abt how I sought solace & found it in a land that taught me to not fear endings

Please visit our online journal!!! We have so many brilliant poets to listen to!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I'm still slowly working my way through the new issue of the brilliant, bold, exciting lit journal Orphic Press/The Orphic Review. But this early poem by Mandy Beattie Mandy Beattie WOMB-CURRICLE BUILT FOR TWO ( read below ) It blew my mind! Phenomenal writing! 👏👏👏

Mandy Beattie opens the issue with two superb poems and her deeply moving readings orphicpress.com

We then have 3 stunning and beautifully crafted poems by Geraldine Clarkson “Magic you, Timothy. Magic you. The little boy dressed in blue silk, a rose at his corsage, made long low humming sounds while his father split canvases for diptychs.” orphicpress.com

We then have the extraordinary talent that is Sue Finch!!! “She is shattering in solitude” ❤️❤️❤️

Attracta Fahy’s powerful mythological poem!!!! Listen to her here orphicpress.com ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Mary Geoghegan - “Like the torn veil in the temple the moment peace moved beyond hope. While, the impotent world still rings its protest. Before Guernica” ⚡️⚡️⚡️

We were instantly drawn to this *beautiful* poem by Mark Ward ⚡️⚡️⚡️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥⚡️⚡️ “I didn’t expect to become obsessed with light” !!!!

We were blown away by Nathanael O’Reilly’s work here “Like the fox, we shadow quarry, target flesh below the bone-line. Waiting for the suitable season, we paw, circle, leap and slay, satiate ourselves, whispering” TWO AMAZING POEMS!!!

No less than THREE poems by the brilliant Henry Gould Read and listen here - ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

And then we have this GORGEOUS poem by Dean Kelly *exquisite* ❤️‍🔥⚡️❤️‍🔥⚡️❤️⚡️❤️⚡️❤️❤️‍🔥⚡️❤️‍🔥⚡️

And finally we have Morgan L. Ventura deeply intelligent, moving and beautifully crafted poem. What a gift! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥⚡️⚡️⚡️🙏🙏

Amazing Róisín!!!! Many, many congratulations 👏👏👏❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Less than a month till my poetry collection is published! amazon.co.uk/Colour-Extinct…

I have only managed to write two poems so far this year. I am really, really delighted that one of them will be in the next issue of the Honest Ulsterman The HU 🌸

Returning to this brilliant poem by Vasiliki Albedo in The London Magazine 'Slipped away/ with a hook in my lip' 🔥