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Seán is working on his first book, a family memoir of migration. His essays and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in The Honest Ulsterman, The Irish Times, New England Review, Oxford Review of Books, Trasna and elsewhere. Seán was recently awarded an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation poetry fellowship in Bulgaria. He and his family live in Listowel, Co Kerry. ....
Carrigallen poet selected for national poetry event leitrimobserver.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from leitrimobserver.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Helen peers out her bedroom window at the silhouette of an old oak tree in the field behind her house. She’s only noticed it recently. It must have been part of one of the many hedgerows that used to criss-cross the land. Now it’s the last survivor in a desolate wasteland. Gone are the cattle and the foxes, the lapwings and the chaffinches and the old stone sheds at the centre of what would have once been a farm before the ever-expanding suburb ate it up. The diggers and bulldozers that turned the field into a desert of mud have all gone now too, the developer no doubt waiting for the planning permission that will give him the go-ahead to plant yet more houses there. ....
Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton ....