Conversation with a poet: Ciarán O’Rouke

Abstract

Ciarán O’Rourke, who is a People Before Profit member in Trinity and in Dun Laoghaire, has recently published his first book of poems, The Buried Breath.

John Molyneux interviewed him for Irish Marxist Review. John prefaces the interview by saying ‘I consider Ciarán O’Rourke’s work some of the very best poetry I have read in recent years’. ‘The Killing March’, one of the poems in the collection, is appended to the article