Nuala Ní Chonchúir – The Red Massey Ferguson
He styles her Blessed, Beloved,
straddles her to feel her exquisite torque;
when she won’t turn over he wheedles
in tones a spinster might use on a cat:
‘Whisha, come on, girl, be good now.’
She thrums to life...
David Butler – Home Truths
It’s the air that hits, immediately you step through the door. The throat gags, just like the last time, and the first time. It refuses the tepid disinfected atmosphere on which floats a spoor...
iii the march, Milan
we climb up to fog
where the Plain of Lombardy
is not plain
they are talking about sleet
it sounds like the end
of everything
the station clock
is haunted
by Benito Mussolini
the time is 1922
but we’re not going
to Roma Termini
no...
Statement Regarding the Recent Human Soul Experiments
I have to say I was sworn to secrecy of course, my boss insisted on that. So that makes it, to say the least, difficult maybe even impossible for me to be totally...
Mary O’Donnell – The Space Between Louis and Me
Introduction
A poet, short-story writer and novelist with many books and collections to her name, Mary O’Donnell is in the enviable position of having the respect and admiration of the contemporary Irish literary community as...
Three Poems by Angela Carr
Introduction for Angela Carr’s poems
I first saw Angela Carr perform some of her poems at a Stinging Fly launch in the Irish Writers Centre last year. Her performance and her words held the audience...
Liz Nugent – Van Gogh
Introduction
Here at the Irish Writers Centre, we are always looking for new ways of supporting writers in their work. In my role as director, I hear time and again that there are certain things...
Michael J Farrell – À la Descartes
Introduction
A grey-haired plastic-bag-carrying intellectual wanderer invites himself to stay in a faded country mansion where bohemians Bartholomew and Bella live in elegant dilapidation. They dine on fish and on a diet of homemade dandelion...
Introduction to the Irish Writers’ Centre
Founded in 1991, the Irish Writers’ Centre is the national resource centre for Irish literature. Our mission is to support and promote writers at all stages of their development, however we welcome all those...
Brendan MacEvilly – Chauncey
Introduction
It is with great pleasure to introduce Brendan Mac Evilly in this issue of Inkroci and to feature an extract of his story “Chauncey” – a Dublin story if ever there was one. We...
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Pina Piccolo – I Would Have Liked To Be patti smith
I would have liked to be
patti smith.
Locks of rebellious
gray hair.
Indomitable
gaunt visage.
The jacket:
the worn-out one
from Horses
that dangles
carelessly
from a shoulder.
And to continue tapping
with your slim...
