I dart from the pursuit of cruel birds
Poems
Before veil of grace descends
We, on Newry Journal, are very grateful to John Macan who has contributed many of his original poems to this site. John’s work is copyright – as indeed is all original work on this site! John has published in the past – and continues into the present – so we are especially grateful for his generosity towards Newry Journal!
The Coasters
These ships of which we have recently written were all coasters.
The Coasters of John Hewitt are of a different ilk!
O’Doirnin/MacMurphy
Peader O’ Doirnin was for a time a schoolteacher in the Lough Ross area of
One I Loved
With this final quoted sonnet, John Hewitt reflects on the nurse of old as ‘The One I Loved.’
Betrayal
What precisely the poet’s role is when he comments upon society, is open to interpretation. I know I tend to be more sympathetic when he raises an issue that sounds some echo deep within my own psyche.