Marty is an independent Irish poet, born in Tyrone, now living and writing in Belfast. Marty has poems published widely in both online and print journals. He won the Matrix prize in 2017. Having published three chapbooks in 2021,2022 and 2024, and a pamphlet 2025, he is publishing poems that will inform his first full collection 'letters home'. Marty curates the poetry community 'button press' which publishes, analyses and holds public readings for emerging and established poets. Marty is a neurodivergent poet.
sometimes when the traffic weakens
you feel you could have the run of the city
in memorium. when there were
no capitalisations, only silent confetti
...
i carve you out
of already alive
and lavish landscapes; build silent,
lived horizons about you, still do.
...
as rain sloshed everything else,
you in my gut, again.
i try to think about outside,
...