Poem published in Poetry Scotland

Poetry Scotland Issue 109 (Spring 2025)

down the path? I did not, was published in Poetry Scotland's Gallus Issue 109 (spring 2025) which can be purchased here. The poem is part of a larger series in development titled Line Readings: Kathleen, Cathleen.

In 2022, I spent some time with a group of artists thinking about Lady Gregory and WB Yeats’ play Kathleen (or Cathleen) ni Houlihan. The intended theatre production never happened.

Line Readings: Kathleen, Cathleen is a chapbook-length response to the voices in the play, the voices in the room and the conversations it triggered afterwards.

The initial exploration of the text was supported by a 2022 Arts Council of Ireland theatre project award and the idea conceived during a 2023 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Emerging Artist Bursary.

In late 2024, another poem in the series titled pulling the seams and trying was published in An Áitiúil Anthology and can be purchased here.