Carole Farnan’s work has appeared in journals including A New Ulster, Corncrake, The Bangor Literary Journal and The Honest Ulsterman. Stephen Hawking’s Party featured on Belfast’s Poetry Jukebox (2021) and House of the Spirits won the An Cúlturlann Poetry Prize (2021). Her poetry has also  featured in several anthologies including all three of   Washing Windows series (Arlen Press)). A short story of hers recently won the Féile an Phobail  Short Story prize and her poem Truncated is part of UCD Library’s Poetry as Commemoration Project.????

OCEAN MOONS at PORTRUSH                                       

Their alien life-forms glittered at us

from a sunset strand -

iridiscent jellies in their hundreds -

moon-trawled by a fickle tide.

Black-edged sea lace, clock-faced;

amber-cored, tendrilling into brown;

some amethyst-like, twinkling purply;

still others like excised hearts

no longer pumping ocean.

Bizarrely beautiful,

beached in their bling.

Strange migrants to a northern shore.