Orla Fay: April 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Boyne Berries Covid Issue for Poetry Day Ireland

There will be time - Poetry Ireland

It is my pleasure to edit a special online issue of Boyne Berries, which will be available on Thursday, 30th April, to download for free as a PDF, for Poetry Day Ireland. The theme of Poetry Day this year is There will be time... Details of submission can be found on the Poetry Ireland website and on the Boyne Berries blog, link to the right of page. Thanks to everyone who has submitted already. I hope to start answering emails later today. The deadline is this coming Sunday, 19th April, at midnight. Thanks to Michael Farry who will be formatting this issue. The hashtag for this event will be #PoetryDayIrl

The Lake Online Poetry Magazine

John Keats - Wikipedia

Two of my own favourite poems of the past year found their home in The Lake, edited by John Murphy. It is a UK based zine. The poems are called John Keats' Ghost (also longlisted in last year's Anthony Cronin Poetry Award) and Little Hercules Under the Blossoms Exploding on Mount Fuji. Both poems can be read here.

Crannóg 52 Virtual Launch

Cover Design Dreaming Glasses by Carlota Gómez Touet

Recently I recorded a poem, written in April 2019 for the virtual launch of Crannóg 52. My poem is titled Heloise to Abelard. You can listen to many of the works included in this issue here.

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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.