1 A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.
1.1 (the Channel) The English Channel.
1.2 A navigable passage in a stretch of water otherwise unsafe for vessels.
1.3 A hollow bed for a natural or artificial waterway.
2 A band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.
2.1 A service or station using a channel of frequencies.
3 A method or system for communication or distribution.
4 An electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal.
4.1 Electronics: The semiconductor region in a field-effect transistor that forms the main current path between the source and the drain.
5 Biology: A tubular passage or duct for liquid. Definitions of “channel” from oxforddictionaries.com
Channel is a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective.
Issue 9 is now available through our online store and through stockists around Ireland.
We believe that humanity’s disengagement from the natural world is one of the great losses of our time, and in the onslaught of climate change we see that disengagement reaching its inevitable conclusion. If Ireland’s history of myths and stories woven from the landscape shows anything, though, it’s that the literary arts have a part to play in rebuilding our relationship with nature.
Our goal at Channel is to provide a space for literary work that fosters re-connection with the natural world. We publish work from Ireland and abroad that displays and celebrates the relationships between plant and animal life, landscape and humanity.
We want words that act as a path, a safe passage wide enough for ideas to flow through. We want words that join human beings and our habitats together.
About the editors
Managing Editor:
Cassia Gaden Gilmartin is a writer and editor interested in exploring personal and collective relationships with place through publishing. She is a 2019 graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin. Her short fiction has been published by Catatonic Daughters, Banshee, Transnational Queer Underground and Eunoia Review. She works as Production Manager at New Island Books and programmes events and supports for Ireland’s publishing community as a Director of Publishing Ireland, with a particular focus on bringing the strategies and work processes of corporate publishers into conversation with those of small, artist-led projects.