Anthologies

My work is included in the following anthologies:

• Under the Changing Skies: the best of the Country Diary, 2018-2024

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9781783353101-under-the-changing-skies/

Published by Faber and Faber in partnership with The Guardian, edited by the Country Diary’s editor Paul Fleckney, and commissioned by Faber and Faber’s Mo Hafeez, with woodcut-inspired illustrations by Clifford Harper.

As Will Dean (at The Guardian) put it: For 120 years, a constant of the Guardian’s history has been Country diary, a short daily column in which a set of correspondents from around the UK write rather beautifully about nature and the countryside near where they live. It is, as far as we know, the oldest newspaper column in the world and, helped by a recent boom in nature writing (just last week we covered the winners of this year’s Wainwright prize for the genre), it’s still going strong.

I’m honoured to have six contributions included.

In an interview with Will, Paul said:   In the book there are diaries from that particular point that are really wonderful in how they captured the strangeness of it: the changes in human behaviour and animal behaviour, and navigating the various rules of where you could go and how to interact. I remember our writer in Northern Ireland, Mary Montague, writing about how breakfast in lockdown was “both strangely quiet and startlingly noisy” because the dawn chorus was the only sound around.

That’s one of the lovely things about the diary – it can, as I mentioned, illuminate some really big stories in some quite interesting ways. If you look at some of the archive and how the column covered wartime, it’s like a downstream bit of news reporting.

Under the Changing Skies features nature writing from the UK and further afield. It’s organised on a month by month basis so the reader can move with the seasons both in print and in personal experience.

 

• The Book of Life: poems to tide you over. Edited by Grace Wells. Dedalus Press 2022

• Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. Edited by Paul Maddern, Lifeboat Press, 2021

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• The Word Ark: a Pocket Book of Animal Poems (ed. by Pat Boran, Dedalus Press, 2020

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• Her Other Language: Northern Irish Women Writers address Domestic Violence and Abuse (eds. Ruth Carr & Natasha Cuddington, Arlen Press, 2020)

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• Reading the Future. (Ed. by Alan Hayes), Arlen House,  2018.

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• Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry. (Ed. by Alan Hayes), Arlen House,  2017.

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• Science Meets Poetry 3 (Ed. by Jean-Patrick Connerade & Iggy McGovern), Euroscience Press, Strasbourg, 2013.

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• Four Irish poets / Quatre poètes irlandais (Ed. Clíona Ní Ríordain), Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2011.

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• The Sketch, Skip & Afternoon (Ed. by Kate and Joan Newmann), Summer Palace Press, 2010

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• The Watchful Heart – A New Generation of Irish Poets: Poems and Essays (Ed. by Joan McBreen), Salmon Press, Galway, 2009.

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• Brass on Bronze (Ed. by Denise Blake), Errigal Press, Letterkenny, 2005.
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• Breaking the Skin (Ed. by Nigel McLoughlin, Matthew Fluharty & Frank Sewell), Black Mountain Press, Belfast, 2002.

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• Beyond the Rubicon (Ed. by Denise Blake), Covehill Press, Letterkenny, 1999.