Poem Renaissance – Oisín Breen

Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again. Memories of a Morning Wake by Oisín Breen First published in Soundings East Irish poet […]

Origin Stories – Oisín Breen

Origin Stories – the Kingfisher The poem, the Kingfisher, is an off-cut, of a kind, reconfigured to stand apart, from my current major work-in-progress. Its genesis lies in slowly building out the world in which the greater work’s narrator struggles between sensuality and an absurdly fanatical religious devotion, and in each object on the island […]