Grief’s Alphabet Jacqueline Bishop

Grief’s Alphabet Jacqueline BishopGriefs Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poets mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite of the impossible task of expressing such a loss. Beginning both chronologically and alphabetically, the collection moves from early life with the narrators adoption, through to the mothers unexpected death and the banal yet painful tasks which follow, such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral. The final section deals with life

Today in the Café Trieste brings together new and old work by Richard Tillinghast

George Heriot

Casey’s poetry is up to the challenge of capturing all this

among many others

Visitors include: Aphrodite whose house is above the shore and her family from Athens

The latter encourages Naz to write

" - Bob Beagrie

As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action

In my arms

including at the Guinness Book of Records marathon at Dublin’s Irish Writers’ Centre

'  – Susanna Nied

Cathal à Searcaigh