Ciaran O'Driscoll

  This sonnet from my latest collection Angel Hour (2021) is based on a heart-shaped stone in the wall of a former convent school on O'C...

  THE CATCH IN THE  SNIB A fellow poet once conversed with me about opening a door, telling me how to open a certain door after I had g...

  MY POST-OP CASE For days I carried about A case containing a whirlpool When I exercised my battered frame Walking up and down The cardiac ...

  QUEUING (i.m. Knute Skinner) Oh yes, there is queuing beyond the grave And sometimes it spills over to this side. Take the example of Knut...

  ABOVE IS A SOUNDBITE OF MY SOUTHWORD POETRY PODCAST, IN WHICH I DISCUSS MY POETRY AND READ SIX POEMS FROM MY MOST RECENT COLLECTION, ANGEL...

  Below is the cover of my poetry collection The Old Women of Magione (1997) designed by the late David Lilburn. I am currently writing an e...

  GRANDSON (for Oscar) I sit on the sofa beside My one-year-old grandson Watching midsummer showers Speckle the window pane His warm hand i...