Welcome…

… to Colm’s little corner of infinity

Colm Brennan is a poet & writer.

His work can be found in Poetry Ireland Review, Sonder, The Waxed Lemon & Profiles among other noted literary journals.

He was selected for Poetry Ireland Inroductions 2023 and was a recipient of an Arts Council Agility Award 2023.

Colm also teaches community based poetry classes.

You can find out more about his writing practice here.

To read samples of Colm’s published work click on the titles below.

  • Sonder (2023) Edited by Sinéad Creedon & Orla Murphy

    Get a copy of Sonder here

  • The Waxed Lemon (2023)
    Edited by Derek Flynn & Joanne McCarthy

    Get a copy of The Waxed Lemon here

  • Want to find Oscar? He’s up on the hill
    cutting pipe among sprawling tyre towers.
    Chewing seeds, spitting shells at his heels
    mythologizing about behemoth rock-eaters,
    the subterranean mechanical monsters
    that shed the tyres in the first place.
    Imagine. If the wheels are thirteen footers
    and coal dust camouflages their hideousness?
    Oscar, the peace-loving Métis, smokes one-hitters.
    Says he likes people. Rides the front-end loader.
    Stacks cast-offs. With glowing-hot lances,
    he pierces carbon black and mesh,
    never flinching from poisonous propulsions.
    He’s got a Montreal drawl. Buys you a pint
    but comes back with a bottle. Yeah, he likes people
    just fine, he tells me but it’s not like it used to be.
    Under the hill. Down where there was nothing but shade
    and those people he liked, well, it was just as easy to avoid them.

    by Colm Brennan

    Competition: Red Line Festival Poetry Competition (2022)

    Shortlist

    Judged by Jessica Traynor

  • “Sam held onto the halter in such a way that it would hurt if Blaze tried to pull away again. Sam refused to twist a horse’s ear, claiming it was cruel. By doing it this way, he said, if Blaze got hurt, it was his own fault.”

    Journal: Profiles (2022)
    Edited by Clare Healy, Sarah Sturzel & Djamel White

    Get a copy of Profiles journal here.

  • The Cormorant Broadsheet (2018) / The Cormorant (2021)
    Edited by Louise Keneddy, Eoin McNamee & Una Manion

    The Cormorant Broadsheet
    Read Corner Boy’s Apprentice here

  • Journal: The Ogham Stone (2018)
    Editor in chief, Dr Carrie Griffin

    theoghamstoneul.com
    Read Shannon Fields here

  • Journal: Poetry Ireland Review (124, 2018)
    Edited by Eavan Boland

    Selected for Poetry on the Dart (Poetry Day Ireland, 2018)

    Read Mindfulness on the Poetry Ireland website.