Dissolved Horses Horses race letter coloured across the nearby sunset over the longitude of the beach stretching over the moon swayed red underneath their hoofs and the other side of the pier in the distance. Clutching the wind … Continue reading individual poems
a two-hander taking place on a university campus. It gives the serious topic of rape dramatic life by reversing the expected roles. The play was shortlisted last year for the Billy Roche Short Play Award 2018, and will be performed as part of ‘Short + Sweet, Dublin’ later this year, David Butler’s novel City of Dis (New Island) was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2015. His play Blue Love was published in 2018 in the Kenyon Review. Literary prizes for drama include the Scottish Community Drama, Cork Arts Theatre and British Theatre Challenge awards. His … Continue reading HE SAID / SHE SAID by David Butler
Egg One half. Sustenance. Penetrative probably. Unholdable glop between fingers, life’s possibilities, licked-sucked. From safety of implantations bare itself nude like watching sun spread, as if melt away butter surrendering to dirt taking grit along the … Continue reading Polly Richardson – Poetry
Caron Freeborn is autistic, perseverating on details others discard. A novelist until gradually she became a poet, her poems have been published in magazines and journals, both with and without her collaborator, photographer Steve Armitage. After winning the Earlyworks competition, … Continue reading Caron Freeborn
Writing to Write By Ed Chandler Writing Exercises and Writing Workshops are a great way to write. There are many different approaches to writing and for some just getting started can be difficult, but if you attend a Writers Workshop, … Continue reading impspired magazine 1 – news and inspiration
Fill this space! Drawing, paintings, photographs are all welcome. Please submit jpgs or pdfs. Black and white or colour, though the print magazine is in black and white so you might want to think about whether your work will convert … Continue reading impspired magazine number 1 – drawings and art work
Cecile Bol Cecile Bol is a Dutch writer with a small family and a big garden in the north of the Netherlands. She is the co-leader of a local English poetry circle. Her English work has appeared (or is due to appear) … Continue reading impspired magazine number 1 – articles & essays
Scripts wanted urgently – fill this space! Continue reading impspired magazine number 1 – scriptwriting
This is, I hope, an appetising taste of things to come! Thank you so much to all of you who have supported our new magazine! I am so very grateful for your good wishes and for your work. If you … Continue reading Welcome to this preview of Issue 1 of impspired, September/October 2019
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