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The Glass Studio

A review of Sandra Yannone’s second Salmon Poetry collection by Eamonn Lynskey Book titles, however off-beat and tangential, should reflect their contents in some way. This book’s title is entirely straightforward and emblematic of its entire collection – entire, because there is hardly a poem which does not mention glass, as with the very first, the unsettling Cut Glass, which is a sombre poem…

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A Debut Poetry Collection from Orla Martin

Somewhat Vortex by Orla Martin. Published by Salmon Poetry 2023 Like a vortex, poems often draw in the reader by a line, a word or a phrase that catches the eye and causes them to look again. This ‘magnetic’ quality can be felt in many of Orla Martin’s poems. ‘Rainbow’ for instance is a title that might signal a poem like the one about the rainbow that made Wordsworth’s heart ‘leap’ when he…

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Association of Writers & Writing Programs Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024

Very late with this blog about my visit in February to the AWP yearly conference, this time held in Kansas City, Missouri. But better late than never. The city was in a fevered state with the Kansas City Chiefs about to go for their second title in a row in the American Football Championship, so the atmosphere was warm and welcoming for all out-of-staters. You HAD to be coming for the game, yes?…

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Cultivating Voices Live Poetry Reading 12 Nov.2023: New Books Showcase

I hope you will enjoy my reading on Cultivating Voices Live Poetry on the New Books Showcase transmitted via Zoom alongside Breda Spaight (Ireland), and Ryler Dustin (USA). It was a privilege to read with two such accomplished poets. Click Here Cultivating Voices Live Poetry  is a regular Zoom reading venue hosted by Sandra Yannone. Click here Our books are available from the publishers as…

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Publication in SKYLIGHT 47, May 2023

Hard to believe that with this most recent edition (No. 17: May 2023) SKYLIGHT 47 celebrates its 10th anniversary.  Many are the literary magazines that have folded almost before the ink was dry on their 3rd or 4th edition, but some few survive the slings and arrows, and this Galway-based magazine is one of them. Its large ‘newspaper’ format is strikingly original and allows its poetry the space…

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Salmon Poetry at the AWP conference in Seattle 2023.

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) was back in business in March 2023 in the great city of Seattle with its yearly in-person conference, its first since San Antonio in 2020, which was itself heavily impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic. In the meantime, provision was made for a highly successful delivery of lectures and events online, but of course there is no getting around the…

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Publication by Salmon Poetry of my fourth collection : 'Material Support'

Eamonn Lynskey writes of the pressures of our fast-changing 21st century, sometimes too fast-changing (He Walks His Several Cities), and how our lives are supported by a cast of unacknowledged assistants in the practical demands of day-to-day life (Your Humble Servant). Poems of loss (Those First Evenings and An Emigrant’s Return) are complemented by others of renewal (This Turning Hour and…

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'Tis the Season ...

‘Tis the Season …

If you take time to read the essay below thank you very much. It was published at the beginning of last month (Nov.2022) in Senior Times magazine so that accounts for the semi-apology for broaching the subject of Christmas so early. But only semi. The truth is that by now it’s not that ‘Christmas comes but once a year’ but that it arrives earlier and earlier every year. No sooner has Hallowe’en…

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Two Poems Published in Cyphers #93

Two Poems Published in Cyphers #93

Cyphers #93 [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Horace reads his poems in front of Maecenas, by Fyodor Bronnikov (1827-1902) My thanks to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and her editing team for including the following untitled poems in Cyphers #93, one a version of Horace’s famous ode in his…

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'a good man long forgotten'

‘a good man long forgotten’

a good man long forgotten : charles the good was murdered praying to his god in eleven twenty-seven so galbert of bruges informs us : all those warring kings and disappointed heirs the plundering soldiery the inquisitions burnings at the stake or worse : and charles the good the good who fought the barons fed the poor in times of famine ministered to the sick : poor charles the good the times…

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Best Time of Day / Il momento migliore della giornata

Best Time of Day / Il momento migliore della giornata

I am delighted to see my poem Best Time of Day published in the Italian on-line magazine Formafluens <https://www.formafluens.net/magazine/> translated with the assistance of the Italian poet Anna Maria Robustelli. This poem was included in my collection It’s Time, published by Salmon Poetry in 2017. http://www.salmonpoetry.com Like everyone, my mother had difficult days and when the time came…

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Best Time of Day / Il momento migliore della giornata

Best Time of Day / Il momento migliore della giornata

I am delighted to see my poem Best Time of Day published in the Italian on-line magazine Formafluens <https://www.formafluens.net/magazine/> translated with the assistance of the Italian poet Anna Maria Robustelli. This poem was included in my collection It’s Time, published by Salmon Poetry in 2017. http://www.salmonpoetry.com Like everyone, my mother had difficult days and when the time came…

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On the Buses

So beautiful … There is that famous piece of World War II newsreel that shows London on a morning after another night of German blitz bombing. A lone double-decker bus makes its way through the ruin and devastation all around it and brings to mind that George Orwell said something to the effect that as long as he found that the milk was still being delivered and that the buses were still running…

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Time Again for Turner

Time Again for Turner

A Ship against the Mew Stone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound Photo (c) National Gallery of Ireland This time of year I would be looking forward to visiting the annual Turner exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland. Not this year of course, with the coronavirus rampant. Last year I wrote the essay below, which was published in the Senior Times magazine and I offer it to those who admire…