Out Now – The Watchful Heart anthology from Salmon
I have an essay and three poems in the anthology, The Watchful Heart — A New Generation of Irish Poets, which is edited by Joan McBreen and is published in May by Salmon.
The Irish poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter
May 17th, 2009
Greece-Ireland anthology now online
Last December, I took part in a Greek-Irish poetry symposium, along with Kevin Higgins, Susan Millar DuMars and three noted Greek poets. The accompanying bilingual anthology is now online. You can download it as a pdf here: http://www.wordsontheweb.net/diadromes..%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.pdf
February 11th, 2009
Salmon: A Journey in Poetry
Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, is a new anthology celebrating a quarter-century of Salmon Poetry. It’s soon to be available from all good bookstores, and the Salmon poetry website. Featuring 106 Salmon poets in nearly 500 pages, it’ll make a great Christmas present. Each poet is represented by three poems. Mine are: Break Up (from [...]
September 4th, 2007
Sunday Miscellany anthology
Just published by New Island Books is Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2004 to 2006. It’s culled from pieces broadcast on the Sunday Miscellany radio programme on RTE 1. My poem, Sea of Tranquillity, appears in it. There are also many other intriguing pieces – prose and poetry – from some fine writers. It’d make [...]
October 20th, 2006
Babylon Burning. Now available in a print edition.
Babylon Burning, the anthology which commemorates the fifth anniversary of 9/11, is now available in a print edition from Lulu.com, having been a download at nthposition.com for the last month or so. Edited by Todd Swift and published by the tireless Val Stevenson at nth, it’s well worth a read and not just because I’ve [...]
October 12th, 2006
Sex and Chocolate, a new anthology
This Valentine’s Day sees the publication of a brand new anthology of erotic confections called Sex and Chocolate, from Paycock Press in Washington DC. It’s edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole, and features my story, Return of the Empress, which I wrote especially for this anthology. Chocolate – and sex – will never be [...]
February 8th, 2006
Something Beginning With P wins Merit Award
‘Something Beginning With P’, the amazing anthology of poetry and illustrations for children, was published in October 2004. Now it has won a Merit Award in the Children’s Book Awards 2005 from the Reading Association of Ireland, having previously won a Bisto award. I’ve got a poem in it: Robot Kid. The book is chock [...]
December 2nd, 2005
Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome
My short story, The Wow Signal, appears in the new Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome, edited by Todd Swift and published by DC Books in Montreal. The Wow Signal is a science fiction story about memory, viruses and dogs.
November 8th, 2005