The stammering poet

Normally, David Mohan wins a major competition of some sort every few weeks, or so it seems. Out of the class of Poetry Introductions Irelan...

Back in May 2004, Mick O'Keeffe wrote an article in the Irish Independent about a guy called Patrick O'Connell , whom I had never...

Inspired by Kevin Higgins' highly satirical piece (but is it a poem, Kevin? I think it works as well without the artificial line bre...

Resurrecting this long-defunct blog to post up the poem that won me the title of Baffle Bard 2014 at Loughrea this weekend past. Poem sho...

For the first time in around nine years, I didn't attend the Percy French Prize for Comic Verse at the Strokestown Poetry Festival. Th...

Pat D'Amico lives in Washington State and is a staunch supporter of the light verse scene. She has been plying her trade for thirty ye...

Smithereens Press was recently set up with the intention of producing high-quality poetic texts of chapbook-length to be made available...

The sun was awake and shone bright his light for us and the dew on the hills had a shimmering sheen. The alarm had been raised by t...

Upon the Samuel Beckett Bridge, I waited and I waited. I waited till the day’s grey light had all but dissipated. I waited till the s...

The photo above is of the Bank of Ireland branch in Dunboyne. Don't know when Google took this photo as the 6 parking spaces are alwa...