I’m very pleased to say that seven of my lockdown haiku from my ongoing Very Far After project are going to be included in this handsome looking volume. A rare Irish publication for my work: Continue reading

Our new issue of FourXFour Poetry Journal is now online for #WorldPoetryDay, available for free download at https://t.co/MhfSwajYd1 The first of our expanded issues, our featured poets are @BmillsBilly, @1annecasey, Ian Heffernan and Azeem Lateef. Happy reading! pic.twitter.com/SChSQ1vqbV — Poetry NI+ (@PoetryNI) March 21, 2019 Continue reading

I’m very pleased to have four Uncertain Songs in the Spring 2019 issue of Poetry NI’s FourXFour magazine to appear on World Poetry Day, 21st March. With thanks to the editors Geraldine O’Kane and Colin Dardis. FourXFour Poetry Journal will be out on 21st March, for World Poetry Day. This is the first of our… Continue reading

There’s a short review of my book The City Itself included as part of ‘Four Books from Hesterglock’ on the Contemporary Small Press blog here. With thanks to all concerned. Continue reading

I’m pleased to have work included in the December issue of John Martone’s excellent journal otata (it’s a PDF). It’s the third section from Four, ‘a work-in-progress, a seasonal poem with elements of the four seasons, the four cardinal directions, the four dimensions and the Pythagorean tetractys’, and follows the second section previously published by… Continue reading

Mike Begnal has posted an excellent, intelligent review of The City Itself on his ever-interesting blog. A few extracts: an attentive reading quickly reveals that certain overarching themes wend their way throughout: access to housing, humanity’s role(s) in the continuum of the environment, the ephemerality of existence, and language as a material (if imperfect) medium… Continue reading