Look and Listen

Biography

Aine MacAodha was born in the North of Ireland in 1963. She attended Creative writing classes when her children were young and was a founder member of The Busheaneys writing group in Omagh. Her sense of place growing up amid the ‘Troubles in the north and the beauty surrounding this; has inspired her writing; and still does. She has been published in the following publications New Belfast Arts Sculpture, Poetry Now, Citizen 32, Oasis, The Herald, Forward press anthology, New Generation Defining Itself, Peterloo Poets, Whispers from the Hedgegrows, Argotist Online, Arabesque Review, La Luciole Press, Malibu Arts Review, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Haiku Ireland, Red Pulp Underground, Edit Red, Faces of the Goddess and ABC Tales have previously published Aine Macaodha.

Inspiration

Likes to read Raymond Carver stories and his poetry.Seamus heaney North, Paul Coelho/warrior of light, .The Camino trail-Shirley mcClean, The Tenth Insight. Voices in the wind/celtic twilight poets. A Course in Miracles, A Return To Love. Alice Milligan. The 1916 Poets,Pearse, Plunkett and MacDonagh. Eavan Bolan, Natalie Goldberg,Andrew Motion, Kerry Hardy, Ezra Pound, Rita Ann Higgings. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain,Peggy O Brien, Glenda Beagan, Sinead Morrissey, Ciaran Carson,Mary O Malley, but most of all, W B Yeats.