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Margaret O’Brien co-founded The Story House Ireland (2014 – 2018) and formerly lectured in English and Creative Writing at Waterford Institute of Technology (now SETU). Her book, Weather Report: a 90-day journal for reflection and well-being, with the aid of the Beaufort Wind Scale was published in 2022. She is an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and is the Ireland editor for the US based literary magazine, Trasna. She curates the annual Brewery Lane Writers’ W/E and the monthly open mic, Poetry Plus, in Brewery Lane Theatre, Carrick-on-Suir and runs her own workshops, Writing Changes Lives, both in person and online.

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Iain Britton is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and author of several poetry collections. Poems have been published in such magazines as Southerly, Landfall, Cordite, Heat, Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Stand, Agenda, New Statesman, Prototype, New Humanist. THE INTAGLIO POEMS was published in the UK by Hesterglock Press 2017. A new chapbook – Project Constellation – has just been launched by the London publisher Sampson Low.

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While thematically very consistent with her previous collections, I think the poetry in Riptide is bolder and asks more questions of the reader. Amanda has something of a magpie-mind. Interested in and inquisitive about everything, she seeks to better understand every aspect of our world, no matter how small, and our pivotal role in it

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Spirit Level: the balance between two worlds, two lives, between memory and the lived past. In this, her third collection of poetry, Marcelle Freiman continues to explore, in greater depth, themes arising from her earlier books, White Lines (Vertical) and Monkey’s Wedding.

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This is penetrating yet humble poetry. Poems that fall off the tongue as gratifying as water. Some written in ways that remind me of curved, cascading terraced hillsides. Taking me to places of serenity by honouring our daily encounters found within ceilings and walls, fences and yards, streets and parks, skin and bone.

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Leaf is Elvey’s sixth full length poetry collection and takes seriously John Charles Ryan’s provocation ‘how might we imagine plants?’, for it is this work of empathic imagining, and decentring of the human, that will offer us any chance of a future in the current age of species collapse and climate catastrophe.

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Practitioners of meditation are like poets in a few ways. The meditator spends long periods of time studying the contents of their attention, becoming familiar with the patterns of sensation, feeling, and thought that make up the experience of being human. Through this study, the practitioner builds an anatomy of experience, and learns something of the world they inhabit — a kind of sense making.

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