Category Archives: Author

Poem in ‘Infinite Rust’

November 13, 2018Author, Media, Poetry, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Printangela

Infinite Rust Fall 2018 Issue

My poem, ‘Admission on leaving the Port of Belfast, 1988’ appears here on page 53.

Crannog 49 Short Story

October 22, 2018Author, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Proseangela

Cover art: Telling Lies by Ann-Marie Browne

My Short Story All Through The Night, set on the coast of west Wales is in this edition.

Poem in Infinite Rust – Fall Issue

October 18, 2018Author, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Printangela

I’m delighted to have my poem Admission, on leaving the Port of Belfast, 1988 accepted for the Fall issue of Infinite Rust, Texas Southern University’s quarterly journal of Literary and Visual Arts.

The theme of the issue, due online on 28th October, is HOME: perspectives or interpretation relating to ideas such as the meaning of home, immigration, marginalization, nationalism, ownership, comfort, security, displacement, boundaries, and identity.

Issue 7 The Open Ear

October 17, 2018Author, Media, Poetry, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Printangela

The literary magazine of Queen’s University, Belfast is edited by postgrads at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, launching 24th October at Bookfinders, Belfast.

I’m pleased to have 2 poems in it, especially ‘An Irish Merchant Seaman’, a sonnet about my late father who was a Belfast man.

Rhyme and Reason: Reflections on a Changing UK

December 6, 2014Author, Poetry, Uncategorized, Works, Writingangela

Rhyme and Reason: Reflections on a Changing UK

I was commissioned to write 2 poems on the theme of the Scottish referendum for performance at the Wales Millennium Centre along with the following poets:

Gillian Clarke, Christine de Luca, Jasmine Donahaye, Angela Graham

Millennium Centre, Cardiff 11th Sept 2014

Artwork: Iwan Bala

Solstice Shorts competition

November 15, 2014Author, Awards, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writer, Writingangela

Shortlisted for Arachne Press SOLSTICE SHORTS Short Story Competition, November 2014

Winner Aber Valley Arts Festival Short Story Competition October 2014

October 10, 2014Author, Awards, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writer, Writingangela

Adjudicator: Grahame Davies: “A mature and wise piece of work that gives us what we want from our writers: in the face of failure and sense of loss, a sense of meaning, understanding and hope.”