Tom french birds1/19/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() In June 2012 she published her poetry chapbook Drawn to the Light. In 2011 she had a story selected for The Lonely Voice: Short Story Introductions in The Irish Writers' Centre. In 2010 she had a poem highly commended in the Windows Publications Cavan Crystal Poetry Award. In 2009 she had a poem commended in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award. In 2008 she was a finalist in the Meath County Library Eist Poetry Competition. 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 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. In 2001 she won the Meath Chronicle/Bookwise Short Story Competition and in 2003 the Drogheda Creative Writers Adult Poetry Competition. "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. Comments by Poet Tom French on Boyne Berries 1916.Poetry Ireland Day, Thursday, 28th April. ![]()
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