Claire Loader
Claire Loader was born in New Zealand and spent several years in China before moving to County Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in various...
Elizabeth Power – Dust
It takes half a week to write about a woman with a shoe fetish, but I persist. The smell of leather, low slung heels...
Elizabeth Power – The Burning of the Women of Cong
T’were well we met and wet the times
Before the pogrom started
T’were circle light that eased our plight
And made our futures certain.
Twere often got at...
Elizabeth Power
Elizabeth Power has a BA (hons) in Women’s Studies from National University of Galway, Ireland (1996) and an (hons) MA in Writing (2007) She...
Aoife Casby – […]
I
Beginning with desire the text was made.
Sex.
Ex.
The thing is to write and not to be afraid.
X.
The resistible idea of kissing. Starts in belly, locks...
Aoife Casby – Shrine
We have been lifetimes constructing, not ourselves,
but the make-up of the place we thought we ought to be.
Offered magic to wells,
influence to...
Aoife Casby – What Happens In The Hours In Between?
12:17 p.m. July 6th Liverpool
Got these pyjamas new yesterday. They’re unlived in. It's years since I've had pyjamas. You know, they're the sort of...
Aoife Casby
Aoife’s short fiction and poetry has been published in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, ‘Noir by Noir-West’ (Arlen House), Ropes, The Cúirt...
Louise Nealon – The Possibility of Snow
It was embarrassing at first, when they didn’t know each other. The postwoman would say hello and Miriam would say I’m grand even though...
Louise Nealon
Louise Nealon is a writer from Co Kildare. In 2017, she won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and was the recipient...
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Ra Sh – The Narcissist
All his mirrors were women.
They displayed him with breasts
and vaginas and flesh buds.
Desperate,
he approached a blue lake
to see his male splendor.
His cock-a-doodle-do
his rippling muscles
his...
Ra Sh – Andro and Estro
Androgen and Estrogen
met over a cup of Energen.
You know how macho
Androgen is.
And how feminine
Estrogen is.
Androgen complained:
These males are...
Ra Sh
Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker N) has published English-language poems in many national and international online and print magazines. His poems have been translated into German and...
Baret Magarian: The secret to a good narrative is to always keep things moving...
This interview with Baret Magarian was conducted mainly in Italian. I have to confess that I wasn’t able to persude him to talk about...
Michael Rothenberg – Coming Apart
If it were a real dream
the roses would
come apart.
