Donegal Daily is celebrating a month of poetry with the #WeAreThePoetsDonegal series, in association with Poetry Ireland.
Throughout April, we will share daily poetry by established writers from across the county.
This series invites you to take a moment to read, enjoy or share poetry in the lead up to Poetry Day Ireland on Thursday 30 April 2020.
Today’s featured poet is Máire Dinny Wren:
About the poet:
As Gaoth Dobhair i dTír Chonaill don fhile agus gearrscéalaí Máire Dinny Wren.
D’fhoilsigh Coiscéim a céad bailiúchán filíochta, Ó Bhile go Bile, in 2011. In 2016, d’fhoilsigh Éabhlóid a céad cnuasacht gearrscéalta, Go mbeinnse choíche saor agus a dara cnuasach filíochta, Tine Ghealáin, in 2019. Tá saothair léi foilsithe in irisí ar nós Duillí Éireann, Comhar, an tUltach, Feasta, Poblachd nam Bàrd The Bramley, Strokestown Poetry Anthology 3, Poetry Ireland Review agus tá ceithre scéal dá cuid sa chnuasacht Go dtí an lá bán a d’fhoilsigh Éabhlóid in 2012.
The writer Máire Dinny Wren is from Gaoth Dobhair in Co. Donegal. She writes poetry and short stories. Coiscéim published her first collection of poetry, Ó Bhile go Bile, in 2011. Éabhlóid published her collection of short stories, Go mbeinnse choíche saor, in 2016 and her second collection of poetry, Tine Ghealáin, in 2019. Her work has been published in Duillí Éireann, Comhar, an tUltach, Feasta, Poblachd nam Bàrd The Bramley, Strokestown Poetry Anthology 3, Poetry Ireland Review and four of her stories were published by Éabhlóid in the short story collection, Go dtí an lá bán in 2012.
#WeAreThePoetsDonegal – Click here to read the full series so far.
Visit www.poetryireland.ie for more as we countdown to Poetry Day Ireland.
If this series has inspired you to write your own poetry, you are invited to send them in to wearethepoetsdonegal@gmail.com to be featured at the end of the month.
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