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January Secrets aren’t always Surprises Through the Glass Oysters The Irish Airman Parachutes to Earth Unicorns Wuthering Heights London Trigeminal Neuralgia The Cats of Balls Pond Road As Stupid as a Tenor The Switch Reading Seán Ó Faoláin to the English in the Year 2001 90 Seventy Seven 93 Returned Yanks 95 Fine Gael form a Coalition Government with Labour, March 1973 98 Mountainy Men 101 They’ve No Time for Trees Today 158 65 67 69 70 72 74 75 76 77 78 87 88
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Acknowledgements Thanks to the editors of the publications in which these poems of appeared: Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, London Magazine, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd, Wales Arts Review, Rack Press, Enchanted Verses , Southword, bathmagg, Pratik, The Compass Magazine, The Tree Line: Poems for Trees, Woods & People, Worple Press, 2017, Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry, Arlen Press, 2017, Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland Celebrating 250 Years of Hodges Figgis, Arlen House 2018, ‘Oysters’was part of the art exhibition Please Do Not Touch at Studio Ex Purgamento, Camden, London in December 2015, ‘Fine Gael form a Coalition Government with Labour, March 1973’ was published as part of The Writing Rights Project which marked Human Rights Day 2015 in partnership with the Irish Times in December 2015. ‘Seventy Seven’ was commissioned by the Irish Literary Society in response to Michael Woods’ Clarendon Lecture, Yeats and Violence at the Irish Embassy in London, 2019. I wish to thank the Arts Council of England for a Grants for Arts Award which allowed me to continue to develop Mountainy Men in 2015. An earlier excerpt from Mountainy Men written in prose was published in the Irish Times in 2016. A big thank you to John McAuliffe who helped me to put two manuscripts together and not least Michael Schmidt for having faith in me.

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January

Secrets aren’t always Surprises

Through the Glass

Oysters

The Irish Airman Parachutes to Earth

Unicorns

Wuthering Heights

London

Trigeminal Neuralgia

The Cats of Balls Pond Road

As Stupid as a Tenor

The Switch

Reading Seán Ó Faoláin to the English in the Year 2001 90 Seventy Seven 93 Returned Yanks 95 Fine Gael form a Coalition Government with Labour, March 1973 98 Mountainy Men 101 They’ve No Time for Trees Today 158

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