Orla Fay: Outburst 9

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Outburst 9

Outburst 9 is now available to view online. It is edited by the somewhat eccentric Arthur Broomfield. I am very happy that he included my poem "All is One" in this issue.

You can view Outburst 9 here:

http://www.outburstmagazine.com/

"All is One" owes its origin to the two very cold winters we recently experienced. I also had in mind T.S. Eliot's lines "let us go then you and I when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table". Further to this I had in mind the image of the Ouroborous as mentioned in the poem. The Ouroborous is sometimes a snake and sometimes a dragon. This is the year of the dragon. The idea of yin and yang can be explored here, the duality of nature. The symbol of the Phoenix is closely related.

Also included in this issue are Peadar O'Donoghue who edits the Poetry Bus, which I know very little about but must look up, Kerrie O'Brien, Nora Ward, Maire Morrissey Cummins, Tara Kelly, Tara White, Phillip Larrea, Declan Furlong, Steven Byrne and PC Vandall.

I hope my poem captures the philosophy that everything is a cycle. This cherry blossom tree below surely shows the cyclic renewal of nature. In the winters it was so bare I marvelled that it could ever flower again, but lo and behold...

3 comments:

Michael FarryApril 24, 2012 at 6:56 PM
Well done Orla, great poem!
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Orla FayApril 24, 2012 at 8:14 PM
Thanks Michael. :)
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Dr Arthur BroomfieldMay 21, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Thanks for the mention Orla. Outburst 10 should be out in July.
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"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost the spirit laughs for what it has found."

"(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"

Orla Fay is a member of Boyne Writers Group. In 2001 she won the Meath Chronicle/Bookwise Short Story Competition and in 2003 the Drogheda Creative Writers Adult Poetry Competition. In 2004 she had a poem commended in the Golden Pen Poetry Competition and in 2005 she was awarded 3rd place in the Dunlavin Poetry Competition and published in the 23rd Dunlavin Festival of Arts Annual. She has been published in the Meath Chronicle, New Poems of Oriel (2006), Boyne Berries Magazine, Crannog Magazine, Revival Poetry Journal, The Sharp Review, Ropes 2010, NUIG's Writers' Society's Writers' Exchange Chapbook, Riposte, Wordlegs, The Linnet's Wings, The Stony Thursday Book 2011 & 2013, thefirstcut, Shot Glass Journal, Census 3, Silver Blade Magazine, HeadSpace, Outburst, The Galway Review, The Artistic Atlas of Galway, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Carillon, The Poetry Porch, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Ofi Press, Headstuff, Abridged, Amaryllis, The Pickled Body, A New Ulster, Tales from the Forest, The Honest Ulsterman, Lagan Online, An Anthology of Reactions, The Rose Magazine, Orbis and The Ogham Stone 2017. In 2008 she was a finalist in the Meath County Library Eist Poetry Competition. In 2009 she had a poem commended in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award. In 2010 she had a poem highly commended in the Windows Publications Cavan Crystal Poetry Award. In 2011 she had a story selected for The Lonely Voice: Short Story Introductions in The Irish Writers' Centre. In June 2012 she published her poetry chapbook Drawn to the Light. She was a featured reader at O'Bheal in Cork in March 2013. She was highly commended for poetry in The Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards in October 2013 and long-listed in the WOW fiction Awards 2014. She was longlisted for poetry in The Anthony Cronin International Poetry Prize 2017, The Fish Poetry Prize 2017 and The Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition 2017 and shortlisted in The Rush Poetry Competition 2017, The Dermot Healy Poetry Award 2017 and The Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition 2017.