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Links to poems available online:

Nerve Music poem-film made in collaboration with Thomas Drouard & Marek Petrovic, August 2023, published as a poem as well as the film here, Ink Sweat & Tears

Less new (but still good)!  'THE STRANGER'  poem film with shadow puppets and  live acoustic music  here
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​Residency 2021 at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, responding to the two remarkable art installations there, Air Looms and  Threads. 

Brothers - 7th May 1916,  live recording, performed by Donal O'Kelly with musicians Dee and Louaidgh Armstrong at the 2016 SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOL  . Original poem can be read in Silver Spoon, or in the The Stinging Fly from that year

Links to some poems in online journals or websites:

Stop Calling it War - Scrimshaw 4, 2025 - print journal with full PDF online here (my poem page 76)

The Most Moral - Poem Alone blog, 4/April/2025

Silence at the Water's Edge - Atrium online journal, 14/Jan 2025 (also in print journal The Stony Thursday Book)

The House is Not Where It Used to Be - Atrium,  18/April/2025

Kesh Caves - Abridged magazine (it's 5 pages so keep turning them) 2023

Nineteen - Abridged magazine, in print and online 2024 (this was also 3rd prize winner at Westival 2023)

Festival of Light - Abridged magazine, in print and online 2023

Stress Test, and Bedroom at 3am - Scrimshaw journal of new writing & art 2023, pages 22 & 34/35

Sky Burial on a Peckham High-Rise - One (Jacar Press) 

Cillíní  - first published in The Ofi Press (Mexico) and subsequently in the beautiful print journal The Cormorant​

Welcome - on PESTILENCE POEMS Hugh McMillan's backroom  recently, here's a link to his blog where I'm sharing a poem from my garden..

Limbo, Distancing, My House, and other poems on Poethead ​ here 

National Poetry Day (Northern Ireland) 2018, included in this ebook: 
Changing Verses In Midstream

Featured Poet - 19 poems - Muse-Pie Press (US)

Snowbird and other poems - Poethead December 2015 

My House, Monasteraden Microclimate, Sleepless Lough Gara - The Irish Times

In Time - Burning Bush2, #8, 2015

Militant With Hope, Pact, Cherry Blossom In Winter  -Shot Glass Journal [Pact was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net 2017]

Great   -Agenda (scroll to page 32) 
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Crows Feet and Christmas List For My Newborn Girl  -Tridae  in both English and Spanish (pages 18-19)

Bird and Watch  -NorthWestWords (the very last poems in the journal, lot of scrolling down!)

Warport  -Galway Review

Stubble  -Shot Glass Journal

Three New Fathers,  and  Fracture  -Galway Review

Dead Language,  Skeleton,  and You Are Not Just You  -Shot Glass Journal

Hellsteeth,  and (scroll down the page) To Samar Hassan  -iYeats website/Hawks Well Theatre

One Last Beat -Shot Glass Journal

Regular -Shot Glass Journal

Scan  -Shot Glass Journal

FLASH FICTION:

Stop Digging That Hole  -Incubator (issue 5, page 54)

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