poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? Sometimes it’s a line you wake up with or a phrase you’ve heard. Mostly it comes from the real world. Other times it...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I like to go back to Yeats and Eliot,...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? I think the power of poetry lies in its ability to convey more than one mean...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?  I have one parti...

Brian Kirk is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Dublin. His children’s novel The Rising Son was published in December 201...