Eoghan Walls Q&A on form
Eoghan Walls talks about he uses form in his poems.
Eoghan Walls
Eoghan Walls Q&A on ‘The Dance of Ararat’
Eoghan Walls talks about the genesis of his poem "The Dance of Ararat."
Eoghan Walls Q&A with advice to young writers
Eoghan Walls offers some advice to young writers.
The Dance of Ararat
After W C Williams If my wife is snoring as softly as a musk-ox, the child purring in the cot, and a distant hum declares the taxis and rain have nearly stopped and my empties are strewn like a planetarium in the aquatic light of my screensaver, as I rise and feel the […]
Angry Birds
My father is watching his father die on a lime-green pillow. The tumours nestle in his crotch like the eggs of a sparrow. Birds smash into pillars of glass and concrete on my iPhone. The plastic silhouette of a hawk wards the hospital windows. Like iron filings, the sky is magnetised […]
Martin Healy’s War on God and Ireland
When I think of how windfarms form scything crucifixes on the horizon, with Jesus and his thieves cutting their arms through the air, with a deeply pervasive thwum-thwum-thwum that could be the swishing heartbeat of air, and how Martin Healy was aware of them always as a curse on the land, as he carried […]
Vertigo on the Glenshane Pass
I was not bothered by the stitching under your eye until we reached the plateau and you fell in the heather where a barbed wire fence covered a seam in the sky, stitching the clods of earth and the clouds together as if it would take no more than a turn of the wind […]
Osiris and the Prague Flood
Watching the fertile but flat and watery landscape passing – I thought of how we had laughed bewildered as teenagers returning from a night of wine with Christians – at how they could smile at us but know us damned forever – in a river of fire with pagans forever mute to God – and […]