Poetry

Moonlight and Stars

Two new poetry collections from Louise Callaghan and Jean O’Brien

Irish Literature

Boarding School Odyssey

Poems of youth recollected. informed by humour yet speaking of heartbreak

Irish Literature

Freed White Dove

Catherine Phil MacCarthy’s new collection is preoccupied with the many tensions of French and Irish cultural and political history from the late nineteenth century through…

Irish Literature

Endings and Beginnings

Patrick Deeley’s poems highlight mankind’s wilful destruction of the natural world, and yet he is also able to see the lark, hatching a clutch of…

World Literature

Silence is Part of the Problem

Sarah Henstra’s novel about rape culture in the fraternity of an American Ivy League college can at times be a messy, difficult and violent read,…

Irish Literature

A Book of Discomfort

Many people say they turn to poetry for comfort. They would be advised to avoid Jessica Traynor’s work, where death and the dead are a…

Last Waltz, First Waltz

Joseph Woods’s new collection takes the reader on a tour through many exotic places ‑ the Chinese Pacific, the Irrawaddy river, the Western Cape, Chicago…

Irish Literature

Mending, after the Fall

The idea that even if injured we keep going is at the emotional core of Mark Roper’s new collection – a book of poems which…

Irish Literature

The Kingdom of Water

A new collection from Noel Duffy sees his verse branch off from the more lyrical and autobiographical work of previous volumes to exhibit greater experimentation…