Poems of the Week
Crow Baby by Lauren Nichola Colley: second place in Moth Nature Prize 2025
Mark Cocker chose Crow Baby ‘for its tender humour and playful use of language and image of an otherwise grief-laced experience’
Walking on the Beach with Mum by William Wyld: third place in Moth Nature Prize 2025
Judge Mark Cocker: ‘I loved this for its seeming and easily overlooked slightness, when set against the gravity of its theme’
Poem of the Week: Seated Beside Iggy at a Dinner Party
Anne Tannam on a chance encounter with rock legend Iggy Pop
Poem of the Week: The Place Where Poems Come From
Patricia McCarthy’s elegy for the late poet, Michael Longley
Poem of the Week: my mother, wearing a pencil skirt, in a meadow
A new work by Liz McSkeane, winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year for her poetry and founder and director of Turas Press
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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