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Mother-tongue
Mother-tongue. For B Maria, mother, best friend all five languages surgically removed. I transcribed your tongue-tied signs, desperate to comprehend...
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Lough Swilly
Lough Swilly Lake of Shadows, shrouded in foundering mist at Donegal’s glacial blue hour. Black-faced sheep disappear on heathered Inishowen. A briny...
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Cheers!
Builders abandoned their half-finished house, meaning two husbands arrived, to add to mine. Loaded, with sixteen cases of wine, one loo roll and a...
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Who do you think you might be?
Mary had a room of her own for three months. Hidden away, 19, pregnant, silenced and a hundred miles from the tiny village of Mohill in County...
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Frontline
After your shift, you strip outside in darkling light, where an ill wind immured me. Your shadowed face, indented and chafed. ‘It’s all around,’ you...
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Thank you Ed
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
For your kind words, it is a spectaculary beautiful island, I aim to go more often. I never met Marie but I listened to her lovely daughter and wrote this for her. I hope you are well now.
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Thank for the cherries on Sunday
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
am also making Clafouti ! :)
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brilliant scene-setting and dialogue
Posted on Thu, 24 Aug 2023
Loved how she manipulated you, the way she looked, the stories so blasely told. Great dialogue. My mum was like this. Only in pubs. She wouldn't have been see dead in a cafe......! Great writing .
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x
Posted on Tue, 25 Apr 2023
not my husband with courtroom drama..... that was the one with wine, loo rolll and chorizo x
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Thank you for choosing me as Story of the Week!
Posted on Sun, 20 Nov 2022
I'm currently preparing for another Friday night! :)
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stunning
Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021
Simply gorgeous, all good art makes you see something in a new, sumptuous light, that's what you've managed beautifully.
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brilliant
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
love the rythm of this, made to be spoken, goes with the pace, lovely sense of atmosphere, smell, vision and that last line nailed it perfectly...
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
Love the helicopter hope and
Posted on Tue, 24 Aug 2021
Love the helicopter hope and the way you have tried to connect seagulls with refugees and our attitudes to both....
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depth and beauty
Posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2021
My favourite is the image of the butterflies as velvet gloves clapping. I'll always see that now. Beautiful poem.
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Love this
Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021
Beautiful, makes me almost want to visit Ikea!! And that place is like Hell. Loved the languid, heated description, pulse tattoo, bolt of silk. brilliant.
Read full commentPosted in In IKEA, he dreams about the woman he loves
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