My poems are published in many print journals, anthologies, and my own books, but here are some links to work available online:
Film:
Learning to Breathe poem-film made with Marek Petrovic and music by Tear Down the Walls music. Winner of the Drumshanbo Written Word Fest 2025, and shortlisted for the Bloomsday Film Fest, the Ó Bhéal poetry film fest, and Copenhagen's Nature and Culture Film fests 2025. Link to Drumshanbo's reel of all the shortlisted films (there are amazing ones here so please watch)
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
The Stranger poem-film made with Carmel Balfe, commissioned by Strokestown Poetry Festival 2019, with shadow puppets and live acoustic music here
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
Poems:
I Keep Writing About My Mother and Not My Friend's Mother - Shot Glass Journal #46, 2/June/2025
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
The Planter - National Poetry Day (Northern Ireland) 2018, included in this ebook:
Changing Verses In Midstream page 1
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)
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)
Learning to Breathe poem-film made with Marek Petrovic and music by Tear Down the Walls music. Winner of the Drumshanbo Written Word Fest 2025, and shortlisted for the Bloomsday Film Fest, the Ó Bhéal poetry film fest, and Copenhagen's Nature and Culture Film fests 2025. Link to Drumshanbo's reel of all the shortlisted films (there are amazing ones here so please watch)
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
The Stranger poem-film made with Carmel Balfe, commissioned by Strokestown Poetry Festival 2019, with shadow puppets and live acoustic music here
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
Poems:
I Keep Writing About My Mother and Not My Friend's Mother - Shot Glass Journal #46, 2/June/2025
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
The Planter - National Poetry Day (Northern Ireland) 2018, included in this ebook:
Changing Verses In Midstream page 1
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)
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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