-
Available for Pre-Order: Milk Snake
My first pamphlet, Milk Snake, is now available to pre-order from The Emma Press. It’s a long time coming, so I’m really excited to finally hold a copy in my hands. From the Emma Press website: Milk Snake is the debut pamphlet from Donegal poet Toby Buckley, who is based in Belfast. In Milk Snake, Buckley invites…
-
Second Place – Mairtín Crawford Award 2019
I was thrilled last week to be runner up in this year’s Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry, with judges flagging my poem “Waders” (unpublished) as a highlight of my submission. Of the poems in my submission, “The Cosmic Comet” has been published in blackbird (journal PDF) and “entryway” in Poetry Ireland Review. “Thank you!” to poetry judges…
-
Poem Publication: She-Demon of Phantos
… she’s small enough that you could accidentally trip and swallow her whole but perhaps large enough to still pose a choking hazard
-
Poem Publication: Prayer
Lord, if this is punishment, I can’t remember what I did wrong, when I began to stray.
-
Poem Publication: “Nostos” and “🐝” [bee emoji]
No longer ripe and furry like my ancestors, I have traded in my crackling black dancers’ thighs for a range of spindly, limp commas.
-
Poem Publication: The Blow-Ins
I hear their flat creak, fit to burst with the unplanned clutter of twenty bodies (give or take) in a single-bedroom flat.
-
Bombinate Issue #1
In Siberia, the bees are guided by their master’s whistle from field to field.
-
Poem Publication: Adam’s
The stomata on my scalp and other secret places cough and pucker out fat droplets of grease