1st - Francis Browne Poetry Competition 2025

Allow me a small celebratory flourish. Absolutely delighted.

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Finalist — “Departure Ballad,” 2025 Frances Browne Poetry Competition! Grateful to the readers and festival team. Onward to Oct 10.
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Honored that Departure Ballad made the Frances Browne shortlist. Grateful to the readers & festival team—see you in October. #Poetry #Shortlist #FrancesBrowne #IrishPoetry #PoetryCommunity

Honored that “Departure Ballad” made the Frances Browne longlist. From San Diego to Donegal—grateful for the bridges poems build.

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Heaney’s shadow is long. But shadows mean light exists.

I’ve just released a spoken-word reflection on Digging—not mimicry, but reverence. A moment from a Belfast classroom, exhaled decades later.

🎧 Listen here → open.substack.com/pub/ronaldca...

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She Moved Through the Fair

Not a reading. A return.

The first audio release from The Last Vowel—
a collection of Irish songs rewritten in the hush between generations.

🎧 Listen here:
open.substack.com/pub/ronaldca...

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3 Books. 1 Signal.
Childhood wonder → orbital grief → the ache of return.
A former aerospace engineer turns the Voyager mission into a poetic memoir trilogy.

Voyager's 50th anniversary in 2027. "The Unified Trilogy" is coming soon.

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Ronald Carson
Poet. Engineer.

@rcfieldnotes is where I trace what haunts and what echoes.

Debut collection The Last Vowel is now complete.
📖 [Publisher pitch in progress]

open.substack.com/pub/ronaldca...

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