April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...
‘Poems For When You Can’t Find The Words’ is a collection of verses that can offer a path through and some light amidst the darkness of grief, writes Clodagh Finn Poems for When You Can't Find the ...
In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 23rd October 2022 on RTÉ Radio 1, Liz Quirke and Mark Roper read from their new collections, and Moya Cannon remembers those who died in Creeslough, in Donegal. The ...
A tear. Then tears. Then nothing. Then tears. This is how people grieve when they’re alone. It might last for a day, month, or many years. Feelings might be hidden or slightly shown. They cry even for ...
“a blackbird knaps/ the flint of my heart,/sparks fly” – Geraldine Mitchell opens Naming Love (Arlen House, €15) with a haiku – a succinct herald to her theme of frozen grief alleviated and uplifted ...
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It seems that hardly a week goes by without a book about the Brontes landing on my desk, leading me to wonder if there could be any corner of their lives left uncovered. The word ‘poetry’ in the title ...
THE grieving parents of murdered teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara have left moving tributes to their tragic daughter at the area where she was shot. Her parents, Melissa McNamara and Shaky McCarthy, ...
A bereaved father is calling on men to "speak up" about the grief they experience following the loss of a child. Ian Lawton's second son Hank died when he was just a day old in February 2011. Ian, 49, ...
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