10 Most Popular Love Poems by Martin Mc Carthy
Song at Nightfall
Song for the Real You
Ebb Tide
Forever
Rendezvous at Sundown
Entering the River
Gasp
All 10 poems above are taken from a forthcoming poetry collection, titled The Book of Desire.
Introduction by Michael R. Burch. ( Read here )
Poems for Ukraine
Ukraine Sequence by Martin Mc Carthy
Words from an Air Raid Shelter
Wounded
Escaping the Carnage
A Survivor Gives Thanks
Earlier versions of these poems for Ukraine were published by The HyperTexts and can be found on their Ukraine Poems page.
Lockdown Poems
Lockdown Sequence by Martin Mc Carthy
A Changed World
Reunion Song
After the Curfew
Cocooning
These poems are taken from the collection Lockdown. Published by Three Spires Press, Cork, 2021.
Poem for Derek Mahon
Renowned Irish poet, Derek Mahon, died on October 1st 2020, during the second Covid lockdown.
A week later, I visited Kinsale where he had lived for many years, and I sat down by the harbour thinking of all the sublime, well-crafted, late poems he had defiantly written against the clock. Then I wrote this elegy for him.
It’s called The Last Summit.
Southward 43: ‘Before the Onslaught’
Last autumn I was standing at my window, watching parents walking their kids to school, and one woman and her daughter really caught my eye, because it was such a cold, dark morning. So I went back to my desk near the heater and I wrote this poem for them.
It’s called Before the Onslaught, and it’s featured in Southward 43, which launches in Waterstones on February 2nd.
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