Loretta Fahy was placed first runner up for the Mairtín Crawford Award in Belfast this summer, and has two poems, "Waiting" and "Hellebore," featured in the summer issue of The Soliloquist.

Poetry: A manifesto-poem about poetry, voice and defiance

Subversification

You may have heard that poetry

Makes nothing happen.

This is fake news.

I can’t seem to grow more than four strawberries

At a time.

Each one takes its own size and shape: