Two poems of mine Shrine and Footprints will appear in the Teachers’ Who Write anthology. It will be launched at the Waterford Teachers’ Centre on the 5th of December 2018 from 7 pm. I will be there reading the poems.

Exciting times. My second collection of haiku will be launched tomorrow the 18th October at the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin. 7:30 pm. Come along if you are in the area. Looking forward to seeing you.

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My second collection of haiku, A Thousand Sparks, will be launched at the Teachers’ Club on Parnell Square, Dublin at 7:30 pm on the 18th October 2018. Please come along. 

I am delighted to have won a scholarship to attend the Yeats Summer School in 2018. The scholarship was organised by the Irish Writers’ Centre. The summer school will take place over 9 days in July. I am looking forward to it.

A poem Dawn over O’Cebreiro was published in the Blue Nib journal in April 2018. You can read the poem by clicking on the link below.

https://magazine.thebluenib.com/article/poems-by-ceinwen-e-cariad-haydon-vicky-donnelly-william-howard-taylor-and-diarmuid-fitzgerald/

 

This poem won 2nd place in the Ballyroan Library Competition 2018.

 

In the Bath

I step in

and skin is scalded

the meniscus crawls up my face

my chest hairs are dancing reeds

my nose rests above the surface like a crocodile

silence is a muffled drum

a piano struck in a distant room

I listen to the slightest flicker of a finger

the shudder of shoulders

I run my hand across my legs and chest

touch is dulled by the water

I come back into the humid air

my eyes full

I speak and set the atoms dancing