Clasp, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Dedalus Press, 74 pp, €11.50, ISBN 978-1910251027

Debut collections have rarely generated as much anticipation as Clasp, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s first English-language poetry collection. Ní Ghríofa is no novice; she has published two full-length volumes in Irish (Résheoid and Dúlasair, both with Coiscéim) and her bilingual chapbook A Hummingbird, Your Heart appeared from the well-regarded Smithereens Press, among whose stable are the likes of Tom French, David Wheatley, Christine Murray and Conor