New here? Paper Never Refused Ink holds poetry, journalism, and fiction written over twenty years, much of it at sea or about it. These six pieces are the best way in.
Three poems
Tibnin Bridge
South Lebanon, 1999, and a UN bus raising a trail of dust. The most-read poem on the site.
Mother Jones
The grandmother of all agitators, and the flame she passed on.
Empty
From The Middle Sea, the poems of the Mediterranean rescues.
Two articles
Rebuilding Somalia: The Sea is Their Future
How the coastline of Somalia is being made safe to fish, farm, and trade across. Nominated for a European Military Press Association award in 2017.
Something in the Water
Five Cobh writers on why the Great Island breeds storytellers, and how they find the time to write.
One chapter
Chapter One: Cheaters Never Prosper
The opening of The Vastus Annals, written as Karol Barry. A card game, a cheat, and a sentence worse than death.
After that: the Books page for the novels in progress, and the monthly newsletter for One True Sentence.
