Poem of the Week: Gó gan Ghá/Unnecessary Lie
A new work by Aifric Mac Aodha, translated by David Wheatley
Poetry
New poetry: Drypoint; The Shark Nursery; Veld Fires; Goodlord
Vona Groarke reviews new work by Jamie McKendrick; Mary O’Malley; Joseph Woods; Ella Frears
David Marcus: Editing Ireland, edited by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden: Rich miscellany of poems, stories and reminiscences
This centenary compilation pays tribute to the pre-eminent editor’s mission to enhance and uphold Ireland’s literary culture
New poetry: Recounting traumatic personal pasts, Kelly Michels and David McLoghlin speak for traumatised societies
Reviews of Geraldine Mitchell’s Naming Love; Kelly Michels’s American Anthem; David McLoghlin’s Crash Centre; and John Mee’s The Blue in the Blue Marble
Fred Johnston obituary: Poet who helped found Cúirt literary festival
In 1978, Johnston went to Galway on a two-week creative writers’ workshop. He never left
New poetry: Old Friends; The Strongbox; Crystal; Coco Island
Reviews of new collections by Aifric Mac Aodha, translated by David Wheatley; Sasha Dugdale; Ellen Cranitch; and Christine Roseeta Walker
Poem of the Week: At the King’s Coronation the talk is of the Weight of his Once-Off Crown
A new work by Clodagh Beresford Dunne
New poetry: Paul Muldoon; Rory Waterman; Katie Donovan; and Harry Josephine Giles
Vona Groarke reviews Joy In Service on Rue Tagore; Come Here To This Gate; May Swim; Them
A poem in memory of the late Eibhear Walshe
Bury Him With Green Carnations by Liz Quirke celebrates the life of her UCC colleague
New poetry: Ancient Burial Ground; Cargo; Silver; After You Were I Am
Reviews of new work by Will Burns; Polina Cosgrave; Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Camille Ralphs
Cairn by Kathleen Jamie: Poetic meditation on climate change and global instability
Environmental writer uses her late middle age to offer perspectives on future prospects fraught with uncertainty
New poetry: Aoife Lyall, Eamon Grennan, K Patrick and Armen Davoudian
Reviews of The Day Before, Of Shards and Tatters, Three Births and The Palace of Forty Pillars
Dermot Healy: Poetry in coastal erosion
Ten years on from the writer’s death, the simple Sligo cottage in which he worked still stares out to sea
Alvy Carragher: ‘Poetry seems to pull out and piece together the heart of the matter’
What Remains the Same is published by the Gallery Press
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