Blog - New Word Order

November 19, 2021

Nostalgia is Old but Always Changes

{By Daniel Mooney} The leaping joy of warm embraces, Or rainy days when we would meet In quaint cafés on quiet streets. Things taken for granted, now, no more

November 19, 2021

Clodagh Healy: A Collection of Work.

{By Clodagh Healy} Three Poems, "Three-ply, the good shit."

November 19, 2021

Time: A Realisation

{By Katie Farrell} I’ve got nothing to say But everything to write.

November 19, 2021

Train to Cork

{By Rory Galvin} Clutching overpriced sandwiches and bottles of Diet Coke, A good book, a newspaper for Nana, You’re running down the dusty track

November 19, 2021

Dear Reader,

It is so difficult to sit here and attempt to write about ending and encapsulating the experience of publishing issue 3 of the New Word..

November 18, 2021

Oh, Sister

{By Cillian Barrett} I’ve been slow-dancing with my shadow for a few days now.

November 18, 2021

The Missing Piece

{By Catherine Neville} He had wandered into the bookshop for a browse after work. Had thought he might buy her a book to take her mind off things.

November 18, 2021

It’s Cold Here, in San Francisco

{By Anonymous} If I was one of those pelicans in the bay I wouldn’t have to cross on foot, I thought to myself. I could just fly over the bridge and not worry about falling.

November 18, 2021

The Monkey that was Promoted

{By Adam Behan} We know that people with too much time and money can make these kinds of decisions without repercussions, but this guy had no idea what would be in store if he gave some chimp an Olympia SM-3, a suit and tie, and the 9 to 5 shift on a Thursday.

November 18, 2021

Rotting Memories

{By Clodagh Healy} Laura was not going to take the money; how could she? Pity fed the woman.

November 18, 2021

Mind Puzzles

{By Mairin O'Mahony} "It is mild for now." The Consultant's comments were barely audible to her. "It will progress, but for now, it is mild. So grab the moments. Stay focused on the present."

November 18, 2021

The Shadow Men

{By Cillian Barrett} Here, under the green grass-woven waves, the soil breaks into limestone, rock peeking through the broken landscape, stiff-stuck remnants of an ancient age.

November 18, 2021

The Block

{By Connor Gray} Despite the heat, a chill rattled my spine as I thought, any second now, God’s thumb would come spearing through the roof.

November 18, 2021

An Interview with Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and described as “powerful” (New York Times), and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian).

November 18, 2021

The Big Questions

{By Nancy Kate} Children come out with the profoundest things sometimes, I think, revising my previous thought. The world would be much nicer if adults retained the altruism of children. He leaps over a puddle, barely making it to the other side. He’s also moved on from this thought and leap-frogged to the next one.