bracket books ireland

Underwater

September 30, 2023 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

The Real Map of Ireland depicts Ireland’s marine territory of some 900,000 km2. Ten times the size of the island of Ireland, it’s barely known yet already overfished. The largest industrial scale Kelp Extraction Licence ever issued in Irish or British waters may soon yield animal-care products and nutraceuticals. Is Kelp deforestation of Bantry Bay akin to rainforest destruction elsewhere?

Front Cover Image — The outer covers for *Underwater.* It is the 33rd chapbook in the series.
All Images © Simon Robinson 2023
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.

Back Cover Image — The outer covers for *Underwater.* It is the 33rd chapbook in the series.
All Images © Simon Robinson 2023
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.

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Shyness

August 31, 2023 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Shyness: me interviewing ChatGPT 3.5 on August 24th, 2023 (unexpurgated).

Front Cover — The outer covers for *Shyness.* It is the 32nd chapbook in the series.
All Images © Simon Robinson 2023
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.

The outer covers for *Shyness.* It is the 32nd chapbook in the series.
All Images © Simon Robinson 2023
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.

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Chapbook About Poem

July 31, 2023 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

Victoria Amelina wrote that ‘as long as a writer is still read, they remain alive’. I found myself looking out to sea in the west of Ireland the day after she was buried. I wept into the rain on hearing the breeze whispering fragments of swimmers’ words.

The outer covers for *Chapbook About Poem.* It is the 31st chapbook in the series.
Images © Simon Robinson
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.

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Absences

June 29, 2023 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

Evidence of absence can be hard to find. Since our minds are endlessly inquisitive and infinitely creative, belief doesn’t have to mean an absence of doubt. Agree or disagree, David Farrier suggests our signatures will remain when we will be absent. Maybe those fossilised traces will be concreted radioactive waste among middens of chicken bones wrapped in plastic but what about narrative, myth and metaphor?

The outer covers for *Absences*, the 30th chapbook in the series All images © Simon Robinson.
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.

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Dispassionate Eye

May 31, 2023 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

I created this chapbook after my van’s side mirror was clipped and broken by a passing truck. I cursed its crossing into my lane on the narrow suburban road. Then I exchanged shards of mirror-glass tidied up from the tarmac. Perhaps I should have exchanged insurance particulars. My thinking was that the delivery truck company would have recorded the incident, establishing their driver’s culpability beyond doubt.