Elaine Cosgrove
Elaine Cosgrove is from the West of Ireland. Transmissions, her debut collection of poems, is published by Dedalus Press.
Elaine Cosgrove was born in Sligo in 1985. Her poems have been published in The Stinging...
American Gods
American Gods is a 2017 tv series, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name.
Shadow Moon, the main character, is a man who has lost everything. He has just been released from...
Awakening films and tv series
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Eiji Yoshikawa – Musashi
‘I told you. I’ve just become a new man. I stayed in that musty hole for three years. I read books. I thought. I screamed and cried. Then suddenly the light dawned. I understood...
Silvio Donà – Living with a non-famous writer
I know what you are thinking: this article should have been written by my wife.
However, it is also true that when you have known each other for a very long time – as we...
Stephen Byrne – Because You’re A Girl
you will bring life
into this world,
only to lose yours.
Because you’re a girl
you will suffer mutilation
to bleed & scream for a month.
Because you’re a girl
you will be brought to a river
to drown
since you weren’t born...
Stephen Byrne – A Father Calls to his Child on Liveleak
In memoriam 513 Children Gaza 2014
Wake up child wake up
cries the father to his child
beneath the torn & tattered building
within the dust & shattered stone
Just above his bloodied waistline
to his chest he holds...
Stephen Byrne – Raise Your Heads
stop looking at the ground
stop glaring at your phones
stop hiding under rocks
stop drowning beneath the sea
stop avoiding the eyes
of someone in need
stop social media lies
stop the bullies who hide
between the tapping
of their laptop keys
stop...
Mary Stewart – The Merlin trilogy
“My Lord, when you look for what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at the sun, except downwards, at his reflection in things of...
Stephen Byrne
Stephen Byrne is a chef and writer originally from Dublin and now lives in Chicago. His debut book Somewhere but not Here was selected by Vinita Agrawal for the RL Poetry Award, 2016 International...
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