I'm very grateful to Maurice Devitt at the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem, ‘Heading for the Airport’, on their Facebook page (see here). I gather it's now garnered over 22,000 views and more than 270 likes. Who said there's no latent readership for poetry...?!
In Denise Riley’s recent short collection of essays, A Chorus of Ears
(Picador), she reflects on the way the persona of the poet frequently gets
in the way...
