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Category Archives: Writing
Jabberwocky, swans and chocolate eggs …
My thanks to Gordon Hewitt of Community Arts Partnership, Belfast, for sharing this interview in which he asks about my writing journey and, in particular, short form poetry. Check out the other features in this month’s issue… https://www.capartscentre.com/monthly/
Posted in FourXFour, haiku, photo haiku, Shahai, short form poetry, The Haiku Foundation, Writing
Tagged Community Arts Partnership, haiku, haiku poetry, poetry forms
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Launch of Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing
I was very honoured to read at the recent launch of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Bob Collins, Chair of the Arts Council, Connor Shields, CEO of Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and Chelley McLear, CAP Project … Continue reading
Crime writer selects my story as a winner
Last year, GKBCInc held its inaugural short story competition judged by crime writer Tim Weaver. Tim is the Sunday Times bestselling author of novels Chasing the Dead, The Dead Tracks and Vanished published by Penguin Books. The theme for the first … Continue reading
Looking back (and forward)
As 2013 comes to an end, I realise that a lot of my year was spent studying and writing haiku, something that seems to have become more a way of life for me than a poetry form. It’s as if … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, My Poetry, Writing, writing competitions, Writing Events
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Pinspiration!
Burning Bush 2 online literary magazine Inspiration comes in many forms and I have just had a piece of work published that started life when I stuck a pin in a map of the world. 🙂 Earlier in the year, … Continue reading
Posted in haibun, My Poetry, Places, Writing
Tagged Burning Bush 2, Cantrer Gwaelod, haibun, The Lowland One Hundred, writers' block, writing inspiration, writing techniques
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Inspired by blues
I have had some artwork and poetry published today over at Postcard Poems & Prose. This is a great ezine that combines writing, art and photography, so if you are in interested in viewing or submitting some of your work, … Continue reading
Posted in Anthology, Art, artwork and poetry, blues, haiga, haiku, Music, My Poetry, Places, Postcard Poems & Prose, Writing
Tagged A New Ulster, Bamboo Dreams, blues festival, Blues on the Bay, International Guinness Blues on the Bay Festival, Irish landscapes, landscapes, Mirenda Rosenberg, oil on canvas, oil painting, Original Irish art, pastel drawing, poetry
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Percussion
Percussion platinum pond surface drum-skin taut a water boatman beats his silent tatoo This poem was inspired by childhood Saturdays when we used to collect frogspawn at Campbell’s Pond in Warrenpoint. I used to love watching the different bugs … Continue reading
Posted in My Poetry, Photos, Places, Writing
Tagged autumn walk, country walk, Donaghaguy Reservoir, duck pond, Escape from the Country, Patsy Collins
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First national anthology of haiku from Ireland
Some of my haiku have been published in Bamboo Dreams, a new collection launched in Dublin recently by Arts Minister, Jimmy Deenehan TD. While mainly comprising the work of contemporary haijin (haiku poets) the collection also features several poems from … Continue reading
Posted in Anthology, haiku, My Poetry, Writing, Writing Events
Tagged Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Bamboo Dreams, Doghouse Books, haiku, haiku from Ireland, Irish haiku, Irish haiku anthology
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