Ale Mercado

Easter holidays used to be my favourite holidays of the year, because they seemed so unexpected and so very long and chocolate-filled. Now, I feel like celebrating processed sugar and mass-marketing isn’t the most amazing thing to get small children to do…so I often ask students to imagine what kind of celebration they would invent […]

Hi again everyone, January is generally a time to put new habits in place, so here are a few of my favourite books about creative writing in case you’re planning on getting more serious with your writing this year! The Artists Way by Julia Cameron This is a really popular book for writers and artists […]

I was trying to think of a good poem to quote from in this post – Another September, by Thomas Kinsella?  This Be The Verse, by Philip Larkin? Then I remembered how disillusioning it can be to have ‘words of wisdom’ from older poets forced down your throat in school.  You don’t get to choose […]

In case you couldn’t make it, here you have a fantastic report on the Rhyme Rag Launch last Spring at the Set Theatre, Kilkenny. Kilkenny Matters: Rhyme Rag Launch