Poem of the Week: my mother, wearing a pencil skirt, in a meadow
A new work by Liz McSkeane, winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year for her poetry and founder and director of Turas Press
Poetry
Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85
Michael Longley, from Belfast, received several awards for his 13 collections, including the Feltrinelli Prize
Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home
A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-bok: The record of a craftsman trying to understand their art in real time
‘A poem is a coherent rambling. If there is only coherence or only rambling, poetry disappears’
Kevin Power: Literary magazines are all the more vital for operating off the commercial grid
This rich universe of words includes The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Ragaire, Splonk, Sonder, The Four-Faced Liar, The Pig’s Back, Profiles and Southword
New poetry: Works by Niall Campbell, Elisa Gonzalez, John McAuliffe and John Fitzgerald
Reviews: The Island in the Sound; Grand Tour; National Theatre; and Long Distance
Kevin Power: I took a deep dive into Irish literary magazines and would do it again without hesitation
Between Holy Show, Dublin Review of Books, Tolka and the Dublin Review, I had a high stack on my desk
John Montague: A Poet’s Life by Adrian Frazier: ‘ruthless intimacy’
Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’
Derek Mahon: A Retrospective - A collection of essays that bring the poetry alive
The poet was always good, and the more Mahon the better, but it’s possible the best came first
Poem of the Week: Gó gan Ghá/Unnecessary Lie
A new work by Aifric Mac Aodha, translated by David Wheatley
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
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