Living on the edge of Kilbroney Park, it is no surprise that I have a special relationship with trees. I go for walks nearly every day in...

It is hard to know, for we had a recurrence of winter twice this month. I was in Budapest to begin with, enjoying winter nights with my...

Approaching Holocaust Memorial Day, I am called to remember our trip to Nice in 2016. Wandering around in a city that still has an intact...

I attended the Stephen Joseph Symposium organised by the drama department of Manchester University in early November. Stephen Joseph was...

"In AD 17, Publius Ovidius Naso, the Roman poet Ovid, died in exile in the Black Sea port of Tomis (now Constanta in Romania.) He had...

Late September in Scarborough I saw my first ever performance "in the round" Alan Ayckbourn's latest play: A Brief History of Women in...

with a screening of the documentary film “The Bloom Mystery” exploring Bloom’s Hungarian origins, followed by an “interview” in the form...

Early this year I was selected for the XBorders Project of the Irish Writers' Centre in Dublin. 18 writers from the North and South of...

with Kata Varnyu, founder of Hungarian-Irish Theatre Dublin, planting the seeds for our co-operation for Bloomsday 2017

This is the first year I became aware of this festival, although it has been in existence for the past six years. The organisers, having...

This little publication arrived in the post lately, inside a poem of mine: Legend. Dawntreader is one of the magazines published by Indio...

Some time last year, I was approached by surrealist poet Kevin Bateman to take part in one of his open-air readings. I was intrigued. He...

This happened on 11th March at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. 80 woman writers came together from the north and south of Ireland....

I will take part in a few reading events in Ireland North and South to celebrate women, writing, woman writers. Wednesday 8th March 1.30...

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...

Sixteen Magazine is an Irish online literary magazine that is published over sixteen months on the 16th, with a new theme each time. The...

After a year of dreaming about it and months of planning and nerve-wrecking wait for funding, the international village of Rostrevor in...

Earlier in the year, Demeter Press published Mothers and Sons - an anthology edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Wanda Thomas Bernard....

Leonard Cohen died today. Cohen’s words to Marianne from earlier in the year: “I think I’ll follow you very soon” echo in my mind,...

The world is steaming with poetry today. Last night I went to The Parliament Building in Stormont, Belfast to celebrate the winners of...