Category: 25 Pins in a packet women creators

• Gold Friend by Chris Murray: the title is often the last piece of the jigsaw (Irish Times)

  This is an excerpt from a reflection on Gold Friend published online in the Irish Times (16/09/2020). Thanks very much to Martin Doyle who offered me the space to write about the book and about Poethead. …The convergence of influence and imagery that is inherent in Gold Friend began at Drimnagh Castle and works from […]

  Chris Murray

  September 16, 2020

  Dispossession

  Books Launched During COVID19, Pandemic Launch

• “Womanhood” and other poems by Amara George Parker

  womanhood womanhood did not sneak up on me when my thighs were stained with first blood that arrived so unexpected so connecting it didn’t happen when hormones sprouted lumps and bumps that others stared at and touched it was not given to me nor did I grab it in the first instance of fucking or […]

  Chris Murray

  August 23, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, poetry

  Aeva, Amara George Parker, An Index Of Women Poets, Earth Pathways Diary, i n k s p a c e, She Who Knows, Spoon Knife, Sufi Journal, Voice of Eve

• “River” a series by Sarah Lenihan

  River (I) I wish I could lay in a river glazed with gold – my heart sinking into yours amidst this pleasure. I would watch you fall beneath my feet as we would lay upon the riches we’ve won. It is a deadly notion to dream this dream of mine– The current brings us on […]

  Chris Murray

  August 21, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet

  An Index Of Women Poets, new poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, Sarah Lenihan

• “In Rivers” and other poems by Alison McCrossan

  Sunray Here you cast your dazzling eye through clouds ruptured on surging waters, where in winds on a mission across skies born of voids words were loaded: let me out; crowns of heaving leaves spilled trees, turned them upside down, a splay of tangled guts, and spat out the despair of the years in a […]

  Chris Murray

  August 2, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, How Words Play, new poetry, poetry, The Natural World / Climate

  Alison McCrossan, An Index Of Women Poets, New Poetry From Ireland

• ‘The New Natalism’ and other poems by Claire Kieffer

  The New Natalism Mother is in bits but only literally she doesn’t find it funny at all this new slug covered in shreds of skin his or her own, she doesn’t know. She doesn’t want to think about which of those are hers about the things she ripped out that took on a life of […]

  Chris Murray

  July 19, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet

  An Index Of Women Poets, Claire Kieffer, new poetry, New Poetry From Ireland

• “Safer Distances” and other poems by Jennifer Horgan

  If you were able you’d go upstairs with me. Dream your hips poised mum jug-like dipped towards the sun. In some afternoon’s shuttered light we’re choosing fabrics to be hung. Your style, your certainty, tugs the rope of a French church bell. You’re young again, words held on winding steps in France. In this dream […]

  Chris Murray

  July 17, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, poetry

  An Index Of Women Poets, Blue Nib, Crossways Magazine, Culture Matters – An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Poetry, Euonia Review, Idler, Jennifer Horgan, Nine Muses, The Irish Examiner

• “Trees Walking” and other poems by Joan Mazza

  Blue Moon So bright tonight, woods glow, as if some rare magic is near, orchestra building to a swell, crescendo followed by abrupt silence, pierced by an animal’s anguished squeal, sound that sends my heart thumping though my dog doesn’t bark. Imagination with a dash of desperation for a happening, some quickening. Stultifying summer heat, […]

  Chris Murray

  July 12, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, How Words Play, poetry

  Joan Mazza, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The MacGuffin, The Nation, Valparaiso Poetry Review

• “Shock Absorber” and other poems by Anne Donnellan

  Snare I am tired of you being you tired of the slit-eye side scan tired of the frivolous flip of your bone, tired of your toy dog dead head bob. If I dare to step on your shadow you gobble my frame with vacant glare torch my aura with ethanol as I utter a word […]

  Chris Murray

  July 11, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, poetry

  An Index Of Women Poets, Anne Donnellan

• ‘The Writing Desk’ and other poems by Sinéad McClure

  

  Subsidence I’m of the age now That’s how my GP put it as he half muttered something about female hormones leaving my body I imagined them packing their bags happily, looking forward to exploring better terrain, cooler plains. They don’t leave quietly there is a deep boom sounding in me loud enough to raise heckles […]

  Chris Murray

  July 4, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, Gardening, How Words Play, new poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, The Natural World / Climate

  An Index Of Women Poets, Crossways Literary Magazine, Live Encounters, Sinéad McClure

• “I Have to Believe that the Body Aspires to a Soul” and other poems by Ann Pedone

    I Have to Believe that the Body Aspires to a Soul I tell you/there was something about that woman/her face/undiluted/ lips open/as if she were waiting/for the sky to come/down on her. There was something about it that/I needed to know/something that/I wanted to remember/something/it was the light/that mattered/this woman/gathered/the light/ held it in-side […]

  Chris Murray

  June 27, 2020

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Saturday Woman Poet, How Words Play, Poetry Journals, Women Writers

  Adelaide, An Index Of Women Poets, Ann Pedone, Apricity, Birmingham Arts Journal, Cholla Needles, Comstock Review, Neologism, Onery, Unbroken Journal, Visions International