Darren Donohue is a poet and playwright living in Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny. His poetry is widely published in journals and newspapers including Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Banshee Press, Strokestown Poetry Anthology, The Blue Nib, Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Dedalus Press (Anthology, Local Wonders), The Sea (Anthology, Rebel Poetry), fathers and what must be said (Anthology, Rebel Poetry), Pandemic.ie, Sixteen Magazine, The Universe Inside (Anthology, Poehemian Press), Poeming Pigeons (Anthology, The Poetry Box), Miracle, Poems of Adventure (Anthology, edited by Jessica Clark and Stephanie Hanson), Kildare Nationalist, Kilkenny People, Poetry Ireland (A Bowl of Mysteries). His work received the Dennis O’Driscoll Literary Award, 2020. Darren was writer-in-residence at Carlow College, St Patrick’s, 2019, and the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, 2020. His debut poetry collection titled; Secret Poets is published by Turas Press.

0011 – DARREN DONOHUE – Four Courts, 1922

With a background in Social Work, Anna recently started writing following a lockdown Zoom course.  The Poetry as Commemoration Project in the Dun Laoghaire Libraries, facilitated by Catherine Ann Cullen, gave Anna an opportunity to explore a painful part of her family history.   Anna is the great-granddaughter of James McDonnell one of the RIC constables shot in Soloheadbeg in Tipperary in 1919. She found the experience of the Project and the process of writing her poem ‘Sentinels’ a challenging, rewarding and therapeutic experience. ‘Sentinels’ is published on the Virtual Poetry  Wall as part of the Project.  Anna has also published a humorous health education article ‘The Phone Theory’ in a prominent US Lupus blogpost. ‘The Phone Theory’  is also published by Arthritis  Ireland on their website and as a podcast.

0012 – ANNA O LAOGHAIRE – Sentinels

I am a forty-seven-year old married Mam of two from Waterford, Ireland.
I have been writing in my spare time for the last eleven years.
I was shortlisted for the Atlantis Short Story Contest in 2015 and 2017. My short story, Make Believe, was published by the Galway Review in 2021.
I’ve had several articles on writing, including an essay and a magazine feature published by the Irish Times in 2021 and 2022. I’ve also recently been published on The Gloss magazine website.
I am currently writing my third un-published historical fiction novel.

0013 – JOYCE BUTLER – From a Register of Sick Calls attended to by the Clergy in July and August...

16 May 2024: INTERVIEW BETWEEN POETRY JUKEBOX POETS & TRANSLATORS:
One of the exciting rewards of bringing six Poetry Jukebox poets to Stuttgart was the opportunity to bring together the poets and translators from the Ambiguities/Ambiguitäten Poetry Jukebox curation from Maria McManus’s Quotidian playlist. While in Stuttgart, each of the six Irish poets met their translators, took a picture together, and read at one of the public events the poems pairs in English and German: 1. Paul Maddern/Nadja Hieber; 2. Linda McKenna/Selin Balikci and Aliena Horvath; 3. Scott McKendry/Danny Naumov; 4. Charles Lang/Elmedina Kolgeci; 5. Susannah Dickey/Sui Lung; and 6. Sacha White/Nina Günter. For the last two poets in the series in May, we wanted to memorialize these interactions with an interview to air on the university radio station, HORADS 88,6, and be archived on our SfT departmental web page and the Soundcloud curation. On 16 May, at the HORADS broadcast studio at Hochschule der Medien, we conducted two interviews between poet and translator: Susannah Dickey and Sui Lung and Sacha White and Nina Günther, which was broadcast on 28 May and 1 June 2024.

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