Jay Rafferty is a redhead, an uncle and an eejit. He is the Poetry Editor for Sage Cigarettes Magazine and a guest lecturer on Contemporary and Irish Poetry. His debut poetry chapbook, Holy Things, was published in March by The Broken Spine and his follow-up chapbook, Strange Magic, was released in June 2022 by Alien Buddha Press. You can read his work in several journals including Capsule Stories, Lights on the Horizon and Daily Drunk Magazine. When not losing games of pool he, sometimes, writes stuff.
By Keilan Colville You there, eternity,take these tired pagesaway to becomemore than ink & paper.I am sick of the quiet game.I am approaching you.As I lay the page uponyour face,…
By Caroline Warner Every year, this day shows upand I have to pretend that griefisn’t pitting me like an olive.The earth unfurls itself in magnoliabranches full of crisp white flowersand…
by Jay Rafferty Jay Rafferty Consider the average artist. Perhaps working a day job they don’t particularly care for, surviving on tuppence from one month to the next and trying…