Blog - New Word Order

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Flagellation Ad Infinitum

by Cassie Smith-Christmas, she/her The boy knows who they are, though he’s never seen them before. He stands at the crest of the hill, watching..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

The Walk From The Taxi

by Arisha Ali, she/her Someone is behind me, He is behind me, Too close for comfort, Yet too far, For now, For me to take..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Stained Sheets

by Hallelujah Talerico, she/her I like the colour red, I liked seeing it drip down my wrist And I tended to wish I were dead...

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Shadows

by Oliver O’Conner, he/him I went there again And this time it didn’t feel like you… There was no warm sunshine on my back There..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Reconstruction

by Peter McHale, he/him “You won’t know yourself!” And I won’t, not really Though I will try. Sometimes I almost catch myself In the mirror,..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Perfect Strangers

by Aaron Bryne, he/him I fall in love so often That I’ve stopped hitting the ground. Not that I’d stay down for long, Lord knows..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Mortality

by Katie Farrell, she/her We are human in our doom. It is our mortality that brings us together, makes us whole, allows the tiniest moments..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Mere Catatonia

by Patricia Walsh, she/her Disrobed at a particular hour, plain to see, Another disaster faltering at will, The mental photograph burning altogether The pedant’s cries..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Lessons On Lying Awake

by Zaza Karaim, she/her i. bordeaux, march 2020 i was half asleep, sweaty and tangled in the blue sheets, you shifted awake. moved to the..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Hope

by Gavin Danaher, he/him Closet skeleton, glass trapped spider. Undying roach, survivor. From talcum to coffin, rocking, Back and forth, never stopping, Never knocking and..

Issue IV

May 12, 2022

Diaspora

by S.C. Flynn, he/him In a strange land, everyone does what he must. As usual, the bird in my dream was a dove covered in..

May 4, 2022

An Interview with Emilie Pine

ine is currently professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin in Ireland. She is also the Director of the Irish Memory Studies Research Network, former Editor of the Irish University Review and has published widely in the fields of theatre and memory studies—among other achievements.

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April 25, 2022

ISSUE V OUT NOW

Table of Contents Fiction They Left Me in Galway by Cathal Brogan Hey Mister by Naoise Deeney The Puppeteer by Kylah Kennedy A Loophole by..

April 25, 2022

An Interview with Louise Nealon

Louise Nealon, author of the 2021 novel Snowflake and An Post Newcomer of the Year talks to us about how she approaches characters, her own college experience and more in the Stranger edition of The New Word Order.

December 9, 2021

Colours of Change

{By Tom Boyle} The night my parents met the city burned around them but the crowds in the festival were coated in flames of green, white and gold.