Michaela McDaid has been published in The RTE Guide and Derry Journal, and has written and read for BBC Radio Foyle. She has also read at Tenx9 events and the John Hewitt International Summer School, and been filmed reading a memoir extract for the Playhouse in Derry. With short stories published in two anthologies, as an Eco-therapist she has contributed to Different Diagnoses, Similar experiences, just published by Emerald Publishers. Michaela was also a Winner in the Prose Category of the 2023 Soundwaves Competition.
As a ‘late starter’ Michela believes she always had a strong voice, she just needed to clear her throat.
North Coast
At the edge
I pause
for permission
in reverence to all living here
liminal space
elemental meeting place
of land and sea and air
bone and blood and breath
are all I am
in your embrace
I move with ease
home and lost
held and free
a rhythmic dance
you lead
I follow
rise and fall
ebb and flow
connected cycles
of push and pull
your patterns and power
reflected in me
being
in water
with water
like water
edges dissolve
impspired 