DELIGHTED TO HAVE MY POEM 'WARRIORS OF DESTINY' PUBLISHED
IN BLACK BOUGH POETRY CHRISTMAS WINTER EDITION 2023/2024
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SO THRILLED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE STORMS JOURNAL THREE
MY POEM IS CALLED - STICKS AND STONES
Oct 2023
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I WAS THRILLED TO be a part of
the storms - issue three - an audio companion
on 'EAT THE STORMS POETRY PODCAST'
COURTESY OF THE WONDERFUL DAMIEN B DONNELLY
SATURDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2023
READING MY POEM from this beautiful journal
'sticks and stones'
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/damieneatsthestorms/episodes/Eat-the-Storms---The-Storms---Issue-3---An-Audio-Companion-e2an2ji
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This piece of news made my head spin!
I AM OVER THE MOON TO HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR
THE PUSHCART PRIZE FOR MY POEM
'THE LINE THAT DIVIDES THE SEA AND SKY'
BY DAMIEN B DONNELLY AND THE INAUGURAL STORMS JOURNAL
9th November 2022
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ABSOLUTELY THRILLED TO HAVE MY POEM 'HINDSIGHT'
PUBLISHED IN GLISK AND GLIMMER BY SIDHE PRESS
SEPTEMBER 2023
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SO PLEASED TO HAVE MY POEM
'KEEPING MY HEAD ABOVE WATER'
PUBLISHED IN
ORBIS LITERARY JOURNAL SUMMER 2023
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I WAS THRILLED TO BE INVITED TO RETURN TO
'EAT THE STORMS POETRY PODCAST'
COURTESY OF THE WONDERFUL DAMIEN B DONNELLY
SATURDAY MAY 27TH 2023
READING MY POEMS
'THE LINE THAT DIVIDES THE SEA AND SKY'
'THE GARDEN ON CHAFFCOMBE ROAD'
'WINTER HANDS'
'INSIDE THE SHADOW BOX'
'THE WORD CARETAKER'
Please see the link below and maybe take a drive or a walk and have a listen and enjoy
This episode aired first on Saturday 27th May 2023. The guests were Richard-Yves Sitoski, Doreen Duffy, Nigel Kent, Lizzie Eldridge, Ann Condon,produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to all the guest stars…
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SO THRILLED TO BE A PART OF WASHING WINDOWS THREE
PUBLISHED BY ALAN HAYES ARLEN HOUSE
MAY 2023
MY POEM 'THE WORD CARETAKER'
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DELIGHTED TO HAVE MY POEM 'END OF WINTER' PUBLISHED
IN BLACK BOUGH POETRY CHRISTMAS WINTER EDITION 2022
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I WAS HONOURED TO BE INVITED BY MARK ANTONY OWEN TO READ SOME OF MY WORK
FOR WAVE TWELVE OF IAMBAPOET 15TH DECEMBER 2022
YOU CAN LISTEN IN ON THE LINK BELOW TO MY READING OF THREE OF MY POEMS
'AN ALTERED LANDSCAPE'
'HOW TO PRESS A ROSE'
'GYPSY MOTH'
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THRILLED TO BE INCLUDED IN LIVE ENCOUNTERS 13th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - MY POEMS
'HOW TO PRESS A ROSE'
'THREE GRAINS OF SAND'
PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ THIS BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINE
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SO THRILLED TO BE A PART OF WASHING WINDOWS TOO
PUBLISHED BY ALAN HAYES ARLEN HOUSE
MAY 2022
MY POEM 'IN SEPIA'
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I AM BEYOND EXCITED TO BE ON
'EAT THE STORMS PODCAST'
COURTESY OF THE WONDERFUL DAMIEN B DONNELLY
SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2022
READING SOME OF MY POEMS
Please see the link below and maybe take a drive or a walk and have a listen and enjoy
This episode aired first on Saturday 29th January 2022. The guests were Jesse Miksic, Doreen Duffy, Elisabeth Horan, Lynne Jensen Lampe and Mark Antony Owen, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to all the guest stars…
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So pleased to be invited to read three poems as part of
Kevin Bateman's event
September 2021 at St Brigid's Well Kildare
'Inside the fire there is healing'
'Across moon and stars'
'place of stone'
'this is only for a while'
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poetry ireland day 2021
Thank you to Eileen Casey for including my poem
'This is only for a while' in 'voices in flight, new directions maps and journeys
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So thrilled to be one of the winners in the fantastic
Beyond Words Literary magazine issue 8 November 2020
with my poem
'I watch you run'
THANK YOU SO MUCH ALSO TO THE ARTIST SABRINA JOVIC FOR HER BEAUTIFUL PAINTING TO ACCOMPANY MY POEM
you can listen to my reading of my poem on the beyond words facebook page (link below) and instagram
OR ORDER YOUR COPY FROM BEYOND WORDS AT THE LINK BELOW
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Delighted to be invited to join this event
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So sad to hear that Eavan Boland has passed on
27th April 2020
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So pleased to be included in Live Encounter 10th Anniversary Edition December 2019
'Letting Go'
'The Sun is Floating'
Please click on the following link
https://liveencounters.net/le-poetry-writing-2019/12-dec-pw-vol-one-2019/doreen-duffy-letting-go/
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So thrilled to have my poem 'Storm' published in Orbis Literary Journal November 2018
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Absolutely delighted to have my poem 'The Garden on Chaffcombe Road' in response to Patrick Kavanagh's 'The Long Garden'
included within the pages of 'The Lea-Green Down' edited by Eileen Casey
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I am delighted to have my work included in a special edition
'Reading the Lines' a celebration of 1916 Ireland from Live Encounters May 2016
'First Light'
'Brutal Peace'
Please click on the following link
https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/live_encounters_poetry_and_platform/18?e=1522854/35491623
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So pleased to have my poetry
'Across Moon and Stars'
'The Watchmaker'
'Blue Willow'
'Eastern Promise'
'The Mind Fisher'
'Our Pergola'
included in Live Encounters Magazine May 2016 please click on the following link
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I was delighted to have my poetry
'Duck Feathers'
'Repair Winter Hands'
'Gone Fishing'
'Image'
'Final Journey'
published in Live Encounters Magazine April 2016 please click on the following link
http://liveencounters.net/2016/03/20/live-encounters-poetry-april-2016/
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'The Strawberry Beds'
I recited this poem on Usher's Quay, The James Joyce Bridge for a Storymap event.
Take the river Liffey
out on the town
show her a good time
as the bells of Christchurch
start to chime, catch her drift
and let her take you home
Out past Island Bridge
where if you listen
as you go
you will hear
the ghostly hooves
that ride
beside you
heading home
to Strawberry Beds
at the water's edge
where trees, roots deep
bend gracefully into shade
A spill of red
pours over
the summer evening sky
where mirrored waters
ebb and flow
still drawn
to the sweet
taste of home
It was also highly commended in The Rathmines Writers Poetry Competition.
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I was delighted to have my poetry
My Poem 'Eastern Promise' was awarded second place in The Jonathan Swift Poetry Awards
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My poem 'Blue Willow' highly commended in The Jonathan Swift Poetry Awards
'Blue Willow'
I saw you first
among those Japanese hills
washed beneath
the water falls
blue
your shape drew me
in the coolness came later
the hard edges much later
still
your picture of life
flowers on a vine
intricate, involved
in too deep I lifted the lid
on which there's no thread
to pick up and follow my sins
I can't close you
blue
seeped over the edge
I have become the secret
within
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My Poem 'The Naked Truth' highly commended European Week Against Racism
'The Naked Truth'
Don't let the words come
that would cause me to lose
my breath
dare to breathe instead
white heat into bones
close down all thoughts
that are yours alone
untie your skin
loosen it at your neck
allow the folds to fall
like clothes
on a changing room floor
draw me close
dance from light to dark
tightly slowly
close your eyes
until I can see
you on the inside
bare your soul
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'Adjust Your Mindset'
My Poem 'Adjust Your Mindset' awarded third place European Week Against Racism
Don't tell me what colour you are
or the shape of your eyes or your face
let me make up my mind
let me see for myself, without revealing your race
Do your veins run blue
on the long journey through your body
to keep you alive
is your heart a good heart
is it beating in time
is it red and vibrant like mine
Do your words float on breath
from lungs white with air
can you inhale the scents all around
are your eyes showing pictures in all the world's colours
can your ears hear the beauty of sound
If we share these colours
like so many others
then the difference is all in our minds
Our bodies the same
sisters and brothers
identical on the inside
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https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/live_encounters_poetry_and_platform/18?e=1522854/35491623
VIRTUAL POETRY TIME AT ALAN HANNA’S BOOKSHOP
30th April 2020
Writers on writing – 16 poets respond to the books that have touched their lives.
In these most trying of times, Bluefoot Press is proud to host a unique event for Poetry Day 2020.
Initially conceived and organised by poet and scientist Orla Grant-Donoghue as a live poetry event in Alan Hanna’s Bookshop, measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 have resulted in its transformation into an online-only collaboration (for now).
Initially conceived and organised by poet and scientist Orla Grant-Donoghue as a live poetry event in Alan Hanna’s Bookshop, measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 have resulted in its transformation into an online-only collaboration (for now).
Determined not to let lockdown curb their creativity, poets, writers, artists, scientists and actors have produced these new works responding to a favourite book.
These have been inspired by simple lines, characters, scenes, covers, even by the memories triggered by a book.
These have been inspired by simple lines, characters, scenes, covers, even by the memories triggered by a book.
INSIDE THE SHADOW BOX BY DOREEN DUFFY
The first drop of black
on an ocean of white
writes pain
on her skin
a story about, who
she might have been,
All along her spine
a book,
of who she wished
she could have been,
across each hip
angel’s wings,
only for love
is all she breathes,
the birth of a
blonde haired son,
Cio Cio San sings,
So, she waits,
through sunrise
and three years of shade,
till one fine day
decides,
she would rather die
than live with
her true love’s betrayal,
white powdered tears
cut through her veins,
She holds her son close
till he can hardly breathe,
tells him to remember her face
in his dreams,
With a blindfold of silk
she stops him from seeing,
tilts her head to the moon
clutches the blade,
draws it deep
let’s music escape
the shrill notes of love
bringing death and peace,
her wings tremble
until their last note,
she hears his voice
call her,
but it is too late.
on an ocean of white
writes pain
on her skin
a story about, who
she might have been,
All along her spine
a book,
of who she wished
she could have been,
across each hip
angel’s wings,
only for love
is all she breathes,
the birth of a
blonde haired son,
Cio Cio San sings,
So, she waits,
through sunrise
and three years of shade,
till one fine day
decides,
she would rather die
than live with
her true love’s betrayal,
white powdered tears
cut through her veins,
She holds her son close
till he can hardly breathe,
tells him to remember her face
in his dreams,
With a blindfold of silk
she stops him from seeing,
tilts her head to the moon
clutches the blade,
draws it deep
let’s music escape
the shrill notes of love
bringing death and peace,
her wings tremble
until their last note,
she hears his voice
call her,
but it is too late.
(Inspired by a book on Madame Butterfly by Puccini
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So sad to hear that Eavan Boland has passed on
27th April 2020
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An Altered Landscape
They changed the flow
of traffic along the
quays
we were seventeen
Bernie Phelan got in a car
with Rasher Mullen
full of the joys of
life
We could see her
throwing
her head back gurgling,
laughing
but he forgot
and drove the wrong way
We could see her head
being
flung back
her throat gurgling
Someone made the
journey
to our house
to tell us
because we had no phone,
back then
Two days later
we made the trek
to her funeral in
Bawnogue
A flat piece of grass
where people dance
that’s what Bawnogue
means
But there was no
dancing that day
We climbed the fence
and crossed the fields
bundles of poppies
splats of red
where the diggers
had thrown them aside
four of us girls
all silent,
when we were never
quiet
They’ve cut the road
straight through there
now
so I can hardly
remember
the long walk
through the fields of
grass
or even where they were
but I remember how
she danced
the night before,
spinning and turning
until
the memory’s a blur
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So pleased to be included in Live Encounter 10th Anniversary Edition December 2019
'Letting Go'
'The Sun is Floating'
Please click on the following link
https://liveencounters.net/le-poetry-writing-2019/12-dec-pw-vol-one-2019/doreen-duffy-letting-go/
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Delighted to be included with readers
Eileen Casey
Geraldine Mills
Mary Guckian
Mary O'Donnell
at Poetry Ireland 2 May 2019 1pm
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Delighted to be invited by Orla Grant Donoghue and Olivier Cornet to write and read a response poem to
'A Truth or Dare Response to An Altered Land'
Art by David Fox
at the Olivier Cornet Gallery 2 May 2019 7pm
These paintings are very striking and each one leads the eye to a sense of distance and possibilities both good and bad within the painting and beyond.
As I looked at David's paintings my mind hurtled back to an individual experience I encountered in the past where the altered landscape of the road led to life shattering consequences.
Delighted to be included with readers
Eileen Casey
Geraldine MillsMary Guckian
Mary O'Donnell
at Poetry Ireland 2 May 2019 1pm
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Delighted to be invited by Orla Grant Donoghue and Olivier Cornet to write and read a response poem to
Delighted to be invited by Orla Grant Donoghue and Olivier Cornet to write and read a response poem to
'A Truth or Dare Response to An Altered Land'
Art by David Fox
at the Olivier Cornet Gallery 2 May 2019 7pm
These paintings are very striking and each one leads the eye to a sense of distance and possibilities both good and bad within the painting and beyond.
As I looked at David's paintings my mind hurtled back to an individual experience I encountered in the past where the altered landscape of the road led to life shattering consequences.
As I looked at David's paintings my mind hurtled back to an individual experience I encountered in the past where the altered landscape of the road led to life shattering consequences.
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So thrilled to have my poem 'Storm' published in Orbis Literary Journal November 2018
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Absolutely delighted to have my poem 'The Garden on Chaffcombe Road' in response to Patrick Kavanagh's 'The Long Garden'
included within the pages of 'The Lea-Green Down' edited by Eileen Casey
Fiery Arrow Press launched The Lea-Green Down -
a collection of responses to the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh, edited by Eileen Casey.
These new poems, by over 60 contributing poets, are presented alongside the poems from which they draw inspiration; by kind permission of The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trustees through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency.
Kavanagh Scholar and Academic Dr Una Agnew launched the collection.
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I am delighted to have my work included in a special edition
'Reading the Lines' a celebration of 1916 Ireland from Live Encounters May 2016
'First Light'
'Brutal Peace'
Please click on the following link
https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/live_encounters_poetry_and_platform/18?e=1522854/35491623
So pleased to have my poetry
'Across Moon and Stars'
'The Watchmaker'
'Blue Willow'
'Eastern Promise'
'The Mind Fisher'
'Our Pergola'
included in Live Encounters Magazine May 2016 please click on the following link
*********************************************************************
I was delighted to have my poetry
'Duck Feathers'
'Repair Winter Hands'
'Gone Fishing'
'Image'
'Final Journey'
published in Live Encounters Magazine April 2016 please click on the following link
http://liveencounters.net/2016/03/20/live-encounters-poetry-april-2016/
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'The Strawberry Beds'
I recited this poem on Usher's Quay, The James Joyce Bridge for a Storymap event.
Take the river Liffey
out on the town
show her a good time
as the bells of Christchurch
start to chime, catch her drift
and let her take you home
Out past Island Bridge
where if you listen
as you go
you will hear
the ghostly hooves
that ride
beside you
heading home
to Strawberry Beds
at the water's edge
where trees, roots deep
bend gracefully into shade
A spill of red
pours over
the summer evening sky
where mirrored waters
ebb and flow
still drawn
to the sweet
taste of home
It was also highly commended in The Rathmines Writers Poetry Competition.
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I was delighted to have my poetry
'The Box Room'
'Mixing Bowl'
'Essence of Life'
published in Senior Times Magazine
'The Box Room'
I entered the box room
that holds the key
tight in it's lock
on my memories
Pushed in every corner
piled heavily high,
on creaking boards
against a lifetime of skirting
scuffed by boxes
filled to overflowing
My eyes moved too quickly
took in too much
caught my breath in my open mouth
reached out my hand to touch
The carriage returned
and as the bell rang
my ears strained to hear
snatches of conversations
from long past years,
they leaked between cardboard lids
where tape too old to keep lips sealed
replayed them in my head
My eyes adjusted, rested at last
on the radiogram, record stacked
ready for it's needle to crackle across
heavy black vinyl, 'his master's voice'
Spinning on seventy eight
to the rhythm
of my mother's toes
pushing the pedal of the singer
while she sewed
lines of memory
into my life
now treasured, kept
within these walls
of this the greatest room of all
although at first glance it may seem small
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My Poem 'Eastern Promise' was awarded second place in The Jonathan Swift Poetry Awards
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My poem 'Blue Willow' highly commended in The Jonathan Swift Poetry Awards
'Blue Willow'
I saw you first
among those Japanese hills
washed beneath
the water falls
blue
your shape drew me
in the coolness came later
the hard edges much later
still
your picture of life
flowers on a vine
intricate, involved
in too deep I lifted the lid
on which there's no thread
to pick up and follow my sins
I can't close you
blue
seeped over the edge
I have become the secret
within
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My Poem 'The Naked Truth' highly commended European Week Against Racism
'The Naked Truth'
Don't let the words come
that would cause me to lose
my breath
dare to breathe instead
white heat into bones
close down all thoughts
that are yours alone
untie your skin
loosen it at your neck
allow the folds to fall
like clothes
on a changing room floor
draw me close
dance from light to dark
tightly slowly
close your eyes
until I can see
you on the inside
bare your soul
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'Adjust Your Mindset'
My Poem 'Adjust Your Mindset' awarded third place European Week Against Racism
Don't tell me what colour you are
or the shape of your eyes or your face
let me make up my mind
let me see for myself, without revealing your race
Do your veins run blue
on the long journey through your body
to keep you alive
is your heart a good heart
is it beating in time
is it red and vibrant like mine
Do your words float on breath
from lungs white with air
can you inhale the scents all around
are your eyes showing pictures in all the world's colours
can your ears hear the beauty of sound
If we share these colours
like so many others
then the difference is all in our minds
Our bodies the same
sisters and brothers
identical on the inside
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https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/live_encounters_poetry_and_platform/18?e=1522854/35491623
Thank you Doreen for contributing your fabulous poems to Live Encounters Poetry April 2016.
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ReplyDeleteI've just found your Blog via Eileen Casey's. I'm not sure if this is the right place to comment on your poems but I love them, I love their movement and freedom ,their honesty and their delicious well-chosen images. Good luck with your work and your Blog.
Posted by Sheila Jacob to DoreenDuffy at 5 October 2014 04:33