Words:
The poems below are part of the ‘Meanderings’ collection, which is a body of work documenting the thought-seeds and dreams that connect us to each other. They were written in many unsupposed places — the back of buses, bushes, off-the-beaten tracks and crowded city streets — during a time of intense personal and collective change. The poems explore continuity in chaos, stillness in motion, holding and releasing. They are momentary reflections on companionship - human and otherwise.
They are a series of tiny reflections, magnified through the written word.
Poetry:
‘Spring’, Superpresent Magazine, June 2024.
https://indd.adobe.com/view/684b8db8-2938-4b3d-bcd1-7e597b74a384
‘All is Beating’, ‘Waking Up’, ‘Wholeness’, ‘Supported’, ‘Daydreams’, ‘Led by the Land’. Blaze Vox, Spring 2024.
'Strangers’. Alternate Route, Spring 2024.
https://www.alternateroute.org/zines/Alternate%20Route%20Issue%2013%20Spring%202024.pdf
‘I Can’t Grow A Poem’, ‘A Soft Landing’, ‘For Eire’, ‘Shadow’. Disabled Tales, January 2024.
https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/i-cant-grow-a-poem-by-ailbhe-wheatley
‘Deep Rest’. Last Leaves Magazine, October 2024.
https://www.lastleavesmag.com/_files/ugd/dccfc8_ccf9c63a610f4142a3426e58558fce3a.pdf
Stories:
Prize winner in the John West Fantasy Writing competition, 2013 for ‘The Whales’.
‘The Wandering Earth’ Spellweaver Magazine, Autumn 2023.
https://www.spellweaverlit.com/order/p/spellweaver-2
‘The Earth Blob’ 2021. Independently published and illustrated.
https://littledeercomics.ie/products/the-earth-blob
‘The Bog Beast’ 2022. Independently published and illustrated.