Marie Shine (1950) is a poet of Listowel, the literary capital of Ireland. She started her journey as a poet in 1965 with her first poem ‘Galway -v- Kerry’ published in a national newspaper The Evening Herald. After that she wrote a number of poems appeared in various magazines and newspapers across the globe, but her first collection of poetry could come out very late. Hence, She has three collection of poems— ‘My Potpourri of Poetry’ (2011), ‘A Sense of Life’ (2018) and ‘Selected Poems: Marie Shine’ (2020) to her credit. She has also been the editor of ‘A String of Words’ (Prakash Book Depot, 2010), a collection of poems of five poets. Moreover, some of her poems have been anthologized in a book produced by The Just Write Group of Listowel called Hearth Song and also in The Ballydonoghue Journal among others. Her poetic talent was recognized in June 2005 when she came 2^nd in The Dunlavin Arts Festival of Poetry and in July 2007 when she got 2^nd position with her English poems in 'The Irish Christian Fellowship Association'. She resides at 32, Ballygologue Park, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland- V31 EC84 and can be contacted at mariejshine@gmail.com or
shinem2010@gmail.com.

Poetry:

• Five Poems of Marie Shine
• Bullet of Words and Other Poems
• Behind A Smile and Other Poems

Review:

• Brajbhushan Singh Gautam Anurag’s Burns Within by Abnish Singh Chauhan

Other Publication:

• Book Review of A Potpourri of Poems by Marie Shine. Reviewed by Jim Valero

E-book:

• Selected Poems : Marie Shine