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Eilín de Paor

Eilín de Paor

(Ireland)
Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin, Ireland. Alongside poetry, she works in services for people with disabilities and is studying towards a PhD in that field. Her poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, Skylight 47, The Frogmore Papers, 14, Abridged and Raleigh Review, among others. Her pamphlet, 'In the Jitterfritz of Neon', a collaboration with Damien B. Donnelly, is published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
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shoggle, worple

Since the 1500s, shoggle has been a word for various sorts of shaking. No wonder it became a word for unsteady walking in the 1800s. Zombies and toddlers are big shogglers. Another term sometimes applied to such precarious ambling is warpling. Credits to Mark Peters.

Added by Geert Vermeire
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