Ciaran O'Driscoll

  Of my two grandmothers, my father’s was the most popular with us as children. My mother’s mother was a grimmer kind of person. I eulogised...

  ....when I saw two responses today that weren't totally off the wall and irrelevant, as most of the previous responses were, sadly to ...

  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...