FRANCES FAHY I was writing a piece when I realised that the song ‘The Parting Glass’ had started pecking at my brain like a robin at the window. For those who don’t know this song, it’s said to be of…
Is Bringing Melancholy On Ourselves Useful?
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Galway Tribal Diaspora Project
Galway’s diaspora, like all emigrants, find themselves in various locations for a variety of reasons… employment, adventure, travel. For Frances Fahy from Corrandulla the reason was very much love. 40 years on she is happily married to Renzo and enjoying…
Poets from the World, Federico Rivero Scarani, Uruguay
Poems from the sunset They will bring you dark and bitter chalices They will name you with words of steel They will play with your sanity and your dreams They, the unspeakable beings without time will search your name in…
Parade of Poems on Women’s Day
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) AWAITING HIM In the morning I wake up like a gazelle enjoying myself in the mountainside, waiting for you. At midday, buried among flowers, I start to draw your name in the womb of the river’s…
Poets of the World, Caroline Nazareno, Philippines
Illuminating Rover Light me as the powerful nebulas Returning from light years of photons Be my auroras in the eve of unknown darkness And all other darkness that the lord of light cansolarly and universally define Be my spectral radiance…
Poets of the World, Amelia Licheva, Bulgaria
Once my great grandfather sent a postcard from Vienna with the Prater on and wrote, “A must-see!” And my mother, who did not keep the postcard, but remembers the story and remembers dreaming of Vienna speaks to me of this…
Kallerbay Storytelling
FRANCES FAHY Kallerbay is a five-year English reading and drawing project for 6 – 11 year-olds. We intend to publish weekly short stories in written and audio form on the www.kallerbay.com website over the next five years. Stories written in…