Submissions are open from 1\u201331 October 2026 for issue 23 (spring/summer 2027)

Join us at Dublin Book Festival 2026 for an event with poets looking at experiences of girlhood and womanhood

The message came through at dusk, a phone call when silence had grown customary between the sisters. The mobile vibrated in the car’s door well but Annie didn’t know who was calling – she was panting…

I had as many things to say to you as the chestnut tree has leaves about a heartbreak of Deliveroo cyclists on Parkgate Street at leaf-fall-smell and cherry-red tail-light time. A backbreak of…

I Breakfast consists of a plate of blackened comal-fried eggs and beans flavoured with those ever-present, anti-flatulence leaves of epazote. An ancient woman sells me some tepache on the ...

She lived with us for three days after she drowned. The old fishermen tied their boats along the quay and joined the gathering crowd on the Cobb. They stood with their backs to the weather, agai...

My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the t...

My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the…

God’s terrors are marshalled against me. – Job 6.4 Good morning bright damp bedroom! Good morning bedmate! Good morning crumple of pyjamas on the bathroom floor! Right where we left them! Good…

Cork has a wealth of incredible poets living within the city and county and it is an honour to bring three of them together in this event, with Dean Browne, Billy Ramsell and Molly Twomey all reading ...

Mícheál McCann reviews new collections by Rachel Long, Billy Ramsell, Máighréad Medbh and Moyra Donaldson

how you get down governs how you fly; you either leave with wings or you stay human,

Join us for the launch of Render by Billy Ramsell! On Thursday 4 June we'll gather at Lavit Gallery in Cork city at 6pm to celebrate this superb collection. The book will be launched by Dr Adam…

104 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-23-7

In criminally reductive paraphrasing, Freud posits that the objective correlative of your first sexual stirrings will mark you for life, be that a shoe, an old woman or a teenage boy, leaving you in…

Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway City

I imagined her soul as a small white electrical fuse, the kind you put into a plug. She was a tomboy, short-haired, freckled. Her family were Gaelgeoirs, she addressed me – An bhfuil tu sásta? An…

Ah, this is a sad one. A lonely little rover at the end of another world. This is a story about those things left behind. The way the author pulls your heartstrings perfectly for what is, really, a…