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ONLINE BOOKSTORE FEATURED TITLES
New Irish Voices
Liberty Walks Naked
Richesses: Francophone Songwriter Poets
Munster Literature Centre
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Roisin Kelly was born in Northern Ireland but has mostly lived south of the border. After completing her MA in Writing at NUI Galway, she moved to Cork City where she currently lives and writes. Previous and upcoming publications that feature her work include the Bohemyth, Wordlegs, Mslexia, HARK Magazine, the Stinging Fly and the Interpreter's House. In 2014 she was placed second in the Dromineer Literary Festival poetry competition, and third in the Red Line Book Festival poetry festival.
Bath
Like two children at bathtime we’re knee-to-knee, in a candlelit shimmer both wary of this gesture's studied romance.
You lean back against the taps. With your damp hair slicked behind your ears you seem younger, and look uneasy
with my toes’ gentle testing of a softness between your legs at once expected and unfamiliar.
So this is your body this is mine. We waited for this moment though it's grown old quickly.
Now there is just the leanness of you, and parts of me that survived a hair-removal apocalypse.
Afterwards, you towel my hair like a parent would too roughly. But you are a naked man
and you are looking at me as if I am also a stranger.
©2015 Róisín Kelly
Author Links
Prizewinning poem by Róisín Kelly in the Dromineer Poetry Competition 'Otter': poem by Roisin Kelly in the Bohemyth More work by Róisín Kelly in Southword
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