Padraig Regan

Biography

Padraig Regan is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. 

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POETRY / Winter 2018

A Terrible June

By Padraig Regan

Who’d have thought this wine made from the flowers of wild gorse
would turn out so well? How were the flowers ever convinced to give up so much

POETRY / Winter 2018

Salt Island

By Padraig Regan

               I wanted to make a gothic of it all:
the trees on the slope where the island dipped
               into the sea, their weird kinks & angles;

POETRY / Winter 2018

Rehydrating Mushrooms

By Padraig Regan

I’m thinking of how mushrooms will haunt a wet log like bulbous ghosts; 
of how a mushroom may be considered a travesty of a flower