The Cormorant is a broadsheet of poetry and prose publishing both new and established writers. Since 2018, The Cormorant has published over 240 writers from Ireland and all over the world and is now in its ninth issue. The initial conception for the broadsheet was to produce a literary journal, something tactile that you could hold in your hand, that could unfold, layer after layer like strata of earth, that was beautiful so people would want to hold it, that was free, and that represented a range of voices and experiences.

Part of the broadsheet's energy derives from the juxtapositions the format allows, new writers publishing for the first time sitting beside an internationally renowned writer, an urban experience beside a rural one and so forth. The broadsheet is committed to short form: poems are less than thirty lines and prose less than 250 words. 

The title of the broadsheet is taken from a Dermot Healy poem, Cormorants, where he describes the sea birds allowed to travel between worlds, to plumb depths and return with messages from the dead. It seemed an appropriate title for a broadsheet produced in Sligo town where cormorants keep sentinel along the docks and sea walls.

Issue 9 is edited by Séan O’Farrell and produced by Róisín O’Shea. 

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