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Three Poems by Vinny Glynn-Steed

Somewhere in the Blue Majestic. I imagine you proud out there, somewhere high on an Appalachian trail, where the boulders...
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Two Poems by Amanda Huggins

AT THE KITCHEN TABLE The late spring snow catches us off-guard, drifts against the henhouse wall, blots out the distant...
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The Chicago 1893 Media Project

In 1893 the city of Chicago celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival with the World’s Columbian Exposition. I have...
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Adrian Bell and the Wisdom of the Fields, by Richard Hawking

One of the first actions the British Government took after their withdrawal from the EU on the 1st January was...
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Rose Petals
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Yumi’s Petals, by Poppy Johnson

Yumi sat crossed-legged on the floor. She had spread out onto the carpet an ugly lime green table cloth that...
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Magpie and Mouse, poems by Liz Quirke
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3 Poems by Liz Quirke

Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
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Three Poems by Aziz Dixon

My life as an onion dry skins for compost layers of meaning rings of time faster than a tree cut...
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Callanish stones, Isle of Lewis
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Three Poems by Nicki Griffin

Lust in the Time of Covid How can he not sneak out to meet her through the darkened streets his...
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Was that my life? by George Sheils

‘Tick-tock, tick-tock’ goes the clock in the bedroom he shares with no-one. He sees that it is time to rise...
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story by Roseanne Fahey
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Lighthouse with a Broken Light, by Roseanne Fahey

Sheets of rain slice your face. From this distance, you should be able to see Salthill’s bars and restaurants but...
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the year 2020 sucked
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The Year that was In It! by Paddy McMenamin

Paddy McMenamin shares his thoughts on the year 2020 with an extract from his book Walking Through a Story of Life....
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the art of field drainage by Philip Walling
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The Beauty of Field Drainage, by Philip Walling

That works of draining are most ancient and of divine institution we have the testimony of Holy Scripture …  That...
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