Patrick Chapman – The Darwin Vampires

The Burning Bush 2 is the new incarnation of one of Ireland’s most interesting literary magazines. The original, print, edition appeared around the turn of the century, edited by Michael Begnal and Kevin Higgins. In this online BB2, Alan Jude Moore is the editor. I am pleased to have new work in the first issue. You can visit Burning Bush 2 here

Sad news. The great literary editor of the Irish Times, Caroline Walsh, has passed away. My condolences to her family.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of my first collection, Jazztown. There will be no special edition with new CGI.

Those talented folks in the Bee Loud Glade are back at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin again on Saturday, December 17th.

As well as lots of other poems set to music in their own inimitable style, they’ll be performing one of mine.

It’s a choral canon version of Loss Chant, which is a section from In Recess, the first poem I wrote for the book that became Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights, back in 1994.

My poem ‘The Orphan’ is a finalist in the third annual Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry contest, and will appear in the Winter 2012 issue. The poem is from my next collection.