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Liam Duffy is a 23 year old poet who grew up and studied in Galway. He is now compiling an Artistic Atlas of Galway, studying Urban studies and working towards his first collection of poetry. He has also read at the West Cork Literary Festival in Ireland as part of a reading dubbed: Irish Poets: A New Generation, was short listed for the Over the Edge New writer of the year award 2012 and has work forthcoming in The Poetry Bus, Kerouac’s Dog Magazine as well as Can Can.
In The Quays the music gets louder as the conversation turns to spit and all is suffixed with ‘eh’, ‘ah’ or ‘lad’. The drinks go past last orders as Dad knows the barman, terraneo but can’t remember his name.
We’re drunk enough, now, to talk about the relatives we don’t talk about, The Troubles and to make a good spirited joke about the uncle married to a Romanian (neither of us are sure how many children he’s fathered or with who).
They sat with patience that pleased. Thumbing through magazines, while the bigger animals were eating.
This city is melting and we’re getting stuck in the slush your back is turned to me and your hat covers your ears I see the edges of your grimace when your trudge requires you to turn a little.
the sun rose out from the sooty stove, through the frosty windows, back to warming the cold vacant sky.
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