Great buzz at the Stinging Fly launch

Really enjoyed moderating the event with @janeclarke.bsky.social & Pádraig Ó Tuama last night at Cork International Poetry Festival. Onwards to Dublin for the Stinging Fly launch! Hup!

Hammering out the last wrinkles in a few notes on Thom Gunn’s Lament for this colloquium tomorrow. Looking forward to a bit of kite flying.

Excellent Circus image for the next @stingingfly.bsky.social edition, fitting too that my poem is part of the period of my life I refer to as “running away with the ….” Looking forward to the publication/launch/festivities

Catching up on reading and loving this @ellafrears.bsky.social essay on Judy Grahn. A tribal elder gave me the JG reader eight years ago and I’ve been quietly obsessed since. Good punning in this essay as well 👌

I have a poem in the current issue of Impossible Archetype, a journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, called Gin Weekend, part of my next collection, the divorce book

My baby baby bear, my youngest, turned 9 this week. A kid whose naming poem demanded a four part sequence. Here is part iv of “Nova” from my debut collection, The Road, Slowly by @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

Today at UCC Library in the Creative Zone! Come celebrate World Poetry Day with our students and staff!

Went searching the park to find my poem. @poetryireland.bsky.social