Sometimes the point takes you to some memory that is faint. The memory might not even be yours. And this is one of those poems, in which David Baker has me thinking of what I’ve gained and lost trying ...

Stuck for gift ideas for the poetry lover in your life? Poet, writer and teacher Dave Lordan might have the answer to your prayers. Dave appeared on Monday's Arena, and told Seán Rocks that, for a ...

This work moves beyond its immediate inspiration, the coronavirus pandemic, to tell a more universal story Think, now, whose hand … (ix) Think, now, whose hand you would like to hold for the last time ...

A compliment among jazz musicians, delivered after a killer solo, is “You were really going somewhere.” That kind of improvised performance, at its best, is not just a stack of impressive phrases or a ...

Joe Duffy has written a poem in honour of his famous phrase, '51551 wash yer hands' which originated at the start of the pandemic. In March 2020 as Covid-19 reached Ireland, Joe Duffy began telling ...