
The walls that fell
On 14th February I was invited to read at the Harbour Bar in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. It was great to be "down south" again and reading poetry to a small, but dedicated audience. The night was organised by The Centre for Creative Practices as part of their New Voices Ireland Series. I read about the cities I lived in/ visited and wrote about and about the walls that marked my life. The Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, both thankfully demolished. Sadly, a smaller version of t