What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jul 09, 2020

Ibrahim Noonan
Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Maryam Mosque, Ballybrit

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jul 02, 2020

Barry Richardson, musician
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 25, 2020

Jenny Farrell
Department of Languages & Humanities, GMIT

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 18, 2020

Pauline O’Reilly
Green Party Senator

Poems for the Lockdown - romance in a Galway bookshop

Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 15, 2020

THE FINAL of my nine Poems For The Lockdown is from my third poetry collection, Frightening New Furniture, which was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. It was inspired by an interaction I observed in a famous Galway bookshop. Any resemblance to Charlie Byrne’s is entirely deliberate.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 11, 2020

Anna McCarthy, lead singer/songwriter with indie-rock band, Dott

Poems for the Lockdown - chatting up girls in Galway

Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 08, 2020

IN THIS poem from my 2005 debut collection, The Boy With No Face, I take a comic look at my mostly unsuccessful attempts at wooing a person of the opposite gender in night clubs such as The Oasis in Salthill.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 04, 2020

Michael Gorman, poet
Short stories of Anton Chekhov

Poems for the Lockdown - the changing face of Galway

Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 01, 2020

THIS POEM was written in 2002 and features in my first collection of poems, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon in 2005.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 28, 2020

Tara Jaye Burke, animator
The Running Man by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

Poems for the Lockdown - Merlin Park Hospital

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 25, 2020

THIS IS the title poem from my most recent poetry collection, published by Salmon last summer. It was inspired by my visits to the Infusion Unit at Merlin Park Hospital, where I am a regular.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Paula Healy, station manager, Flirt 101.3 FM
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

I dream I am in my favourite pub...

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Days and nights play out like a loop. It begins with a dream. I am in my favourite pub. Tígh Neachtain, Cross Street. Writers, painters, actors, singers, the whole lot of us, locked in and making merry.

Cocooning with my books

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Due to the suddenness of the lockdown in Ireland, I found myself suddenly cocooning at home with little or no contact with the bookshop.

Poems for the Lockdown - Bohermore cemetery

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 18, 2020

I WROTE this poem in 2014 after the English poet Helen Mort, who, as well as being an excellent poet, is an accomplished cross country runner, asked me: "And do you run?"

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 14, 2020

Leo Moran, singer-songwriter
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Poems for the Lockdown - Eyre Square

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 11, 2020

THIS POEM was written for a poetry competition the Galway City Council organised on the theme of ‘Eyre Square’ and it featured in my fourth poetry collection, The Ghost In The Lobby, published by Salmon in 2014.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 07, 2020

Rev Lynda Peilow, rector, St Nicholas' Collegiate Church

Poems for the Lockdown - Recession once again?

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 04, 2020

THIS POEM was written over the June Bank Holiday weekend in 2008 and featured in my third poetry collection, Frightening New Furniture, which was published by Salmon in 2010.