Mark O’Flynn: ‘Chatroom Narcissus’ – Bloomsday Supplement 2026
Mark O’Flynn’s Chatroom Narcissus continues our 2026 Bloomsday Supplement.
Mark O’Flynn
Mark O’Flynn: ‘If Joyce had Spellchack’ – Bloomsday Supplement 2026
The 2026 Rochford Street Review Bloomsday Supplement kicks off with Mark O’Flynn’s ‘If Joyce had Spellchack.’
Mark O’Flynn: 4 Poems
Mark O’Flynn has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Undercoat (Liquid Amber Press, 2022) and Einstein’s Brain (Puncher & Wattmann). His novels include The Last Days of Ava Langdon, (UQP, 2016), Grassdogs (Harper Collins, 2006) and The Forgotten World (HC, 2013).
Moments of true contact: Peter Minter launches ‘Undercoat: Poems about Paintings’ by Mark O’Flynn
In this new book of poetry Mark deepens and extends his range with a particular focus on ekphrasis, which in very rough terms means using one form of art or literature to describe or respond to what is seen in a different form of art or literature.
The remembered territory of the past: Mark O’Flynn reviews ‘Feldspar’ by Brendan Ryan.
This idea of returning forms one of the central tropes of Feldspar in both a figurative and literal sense. Many of these poems revisit scenes of the past, of the casual rituals of life down on the farm.
Enticing snippets of narrative: Mark O’Flynn reviews ‘The Detective’s Chair’ by Anne M Carson
Detective fiction is hardly a traditional subject for poetry, yet there is clearly a perennial fascination with crime and crime solving. The Detective’s Chair exploits the conceit that the 32 detectives presented here do most of their reflecting, cogitating, puzzling, meditating and nutting-out in the embrace of a favourite chair.