AFRIC McGLINCHEY
Afric McGlinchey’s awards include the Hennessy Poetry award, Northern Liberties Prize (USA) and Poets and Meet Politics prize. She was one of seven writers chosen to go to Italy for the 2014 Italo-Irish Literature Exchange. Her début, The lucky star of hidden things, was subsequently translated into Italian. Afric appears in issue 118 of Poetry Ireland Review, which features the editor’s selection of Ireland’s rising poets. She received a Cork County Council Arts bursary to enable her to write her second collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat, which was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
C Sharp Johnny and Claire from Clew Bay
for my father and i.m. my mother
He sent a dozen roses – hourly – to her suite,
to persuade her he was sorry. The porter said
she’d sent them on to hospitals. In the Horseshoe
Bar downstairs, the men were laying bets
on when she’d finally relent. It was some
three hundred roses later, when she appeared;
the sauntering high heels, Chanel red dress,
fingernails, ten tiny flames; lips pressed
tight as the linen clasping her lissome shape.
Although they twitched at the standing
ovation as she approached him in the corner,
grazed her cheek against his bristle.
‘You’re a scoundrel,’ she announced, raising
a Hepburn eyebrow, ‘but I like your style.’
©2016 Afric McGlinchey
Author Links
Afric McGlinchey home page
Afric McGlinchey at Salmon Poetry
Five poems by Afric McGlinchey featured in Numéro Cinq
More by Afric McGlinchey in Southword Journal
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