John Hughes
@johnmelhughes.bsky.social
Writing poems since the fierce hot summer of 1976.
Grey morning leaving Derry.
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Grey morning leaving Derry.
Bungalow bliss.
📷 Martin Parr.
📷 Martin Parr.
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Bungalow bliss.
📷 Martin Parr.
📷 Martin Parr.
A serial killer run by MI5 and they're still covering up the truth. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
MI5 impeded inquiry into Stakeknife agent who murdered for IRA, says official report
Nine-year investigation paints highly critical picture of agency’s handling of double agent
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December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A serial killer run by MI5 and they're still covering up the truth. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's not often I cut out a poem to keep.
December 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It's not often I cut out a poem to keep.
RIP Martin Parr. www.rte.ie/archives/202...
Morris Minor Mad Martin Parr
Martin Parr captures Morris Minor cars abandoned by their owners to the landscape of the west of Ireland.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
RIP Martin Parr. www.rte.ie/archives/202...
Great Northern Railway line just north of Carrigans on the old line from Derry to Strabane
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Great Northern Railway line just north of Carrigans on the old line from Derry to Strabane
Sharagore Wedge Tomb overlooking Lough Swilly.
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sharagore Wedge Tomb overlooking Lough Swilly.
Photograph I took of Dermot Healy and a local farmer in Carrickmacross during the Patrick Kavanagh weekend of November 1985.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Photograph I took of Dermot Healy and a local farmer in Carrickmacross during the Patrick Kavanagh weekend of November 1985.
The dereliction of Lower North Street in Belfast city centre is terrible. This photo was taken on Tuesday afternoon.
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The dereliction of Lower North Street in Belfast city centre is terrible. This photo was taken on Tuesday afternoon.
When in Belfast always worth a visit.
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
When in Belfast always worth a visit.
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What is poetry? Ciaran Carson.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
What is poetry? Ciaran Carson.
This is just class. Cheered me up no end. youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is just class. Cheered me up no end. youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...
The inflated sense of their own significance that some in the poetry world have of themselves never fails to amuse me.
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The inflated sense of their own significance that some in the poetry world have of themselves never fails to amuse me.
I remember one night in the Eglantine Inn (the Egg) telling Ciaran about a superb American poet C K Williams. A few weeks later I loaned him my copy of 'Tar'. The rest is history.
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I remember one night in the Eglantine Inn (the Egg) telling Ciaran about a superb American poet C K Williams. A few weeks later I loaned him my copy of 'Tar'. The rest is history.
About to set off back to Derry in the train from the launch in the Seamus Heaney Centre of Ciaran Carson's selected essays. The book is a wonder.
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
About to set off back to Derry in the train from the launch in the Seamus Heaney Centre of Ciaran Carson's selected essays. The book is a wonder.
In one of my youthful Belfast haunts - Lavery's.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In one of my youthful Belfast haunts - Lavery's.
Summit of Bulbin, Inishowen
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Summit of Bulbin, Inishowen
L'homme derrière le fil de fer.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
L'homme derrière le fil de fer.
Strabane railway map.
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Strabane railway map.
A lethal dilemma.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A lethal dilemma.