He Used to Be Me

THE MAN WITH THE NEPHIN HUMP is a beautiful and devastating prose poem by an emerging LGBTQ+ Irish poet based in Mayo, Anne Walsh Donnelly. Following the life of 'Daft Matt', from the loss of his twin brother as a child and the impact that had on him and his family, through the halcyon days of early manhood, when he travelled the world and met his wife, to the shocking aftermath of a horse-riding accident that would leave him in care for another 30 years.