Anne Marie Corrigan
Author and Poet
Anne Marie is from Cork, Ireland but now enjoys living with her family in beautiful Vancouver, BC, home of the Coast Salish Peoples. Her poetry, essays and journalistic writings have appeared in many publications including Readers Digest, Leon Literary Review, The Poet Magazine, Moss Piglet, Pine Row Magazine,The Exchanger and In Dublin. She worked as writer and managing editor of Alive Magazine. Currently, she is the poetry columnist for the Desperate Writer substack. Anne Marie has a Masters in Italian Literature from University College Cork, and a Masters in Journalism from the University of British Columbia.
​
Monthly Featured Poem
When Immortals Risk it All ​
And Oisin,
Why would you leave Tir na nÓg?
Were you tired of flesh that sang with the taut pitch of a cold bodhrán?
Like the hollow-antlered elk that has rutted for the last time
Or the mottled toad that cannot spring as high
Did you also wish for the milky spill of death’s eye?
To lie limp as shedded snakeskin
Left to curl and haze in the blaze of a dog-day desert dune
Did you come to know beauty tires in eternal sunshine?
That shadows matter
That there can be too many dawns
And then
Were you curious to see seasons fade your face
Like scudding clouds temper a jaded sky?
You were ready to loosen your grip
To step on forbidden ground
Ah yes
You had already tasted tartness
The beginning of the middle of the end of life
It was delicious
And you were done with endless summers
So maybe you were ready for the release of death’s battle cry
The gasp, the rasp, the rale, the rattle
The relief of it.
First published by Ropes Literary Journal
