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So my third book of poetry, ‘Island Songs’, was officially published by Ignite Books yesterday. I’ve been selling copies for a few weeks already, at gigs and readings, and via the Ignite website, but now it’s official you can also…

Poetry has an image problem. Really, it does. In the popular imagination, poets are loners who skulk in bedsits. They’re self-obsessed and melancholic, socially inept and badly dressed, and their work is so clod-hoppingly awful that the mere threat they’ll…

So here it is. Craic. The new kid on this particular website’s block. For some months now I’ve been meaning to set up some kind of blog, a page where I can get up on my hind legs and spout…