A Fruitful Reticence
Vinegar Hill, by Colm Tóibín, Carcanet, 144 pp., £12.99, ISBN: 978-1800171619 The Poems (1961-2020), by Derek Mahon, The Gallery Press, 532 pp., £19.50, ISBN: 978-1911338048 On Elizabeth Bishop, by Colm Tóibín, Princeton University Press, 210 pp., £14.99, ISBN: 978 0691154114 Poems, by Elizabeth Bishop, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 352 pp., £14.99, ISBN: 978-0374125585 Selected Poems, […]
The Thing with Rivers
Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane. Hamish Hamilton, 374 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-0241624814 Incubating the Trout. The Story of the Oldest Salmonid Hatchery in the World and the Environmental Fight to Protect It, by Kevin Prunty, Book Hub Publishing, 72 pp, €12, ISBN: 978-1068649073 Like Bedřik Smetana’s symphonic poem The Moldau, this book opens […]
Appointment
Johnny Lyons writes: I am thrilled to take up the role of managing editor with the drb, a journal of which I have long been an avid reader and to which, in more recent times, I have been a proud contributor. The drb has made an incalculable contribution to Irish intellectual life and I intend […]
Fascism in America
The ghost of Karl Marx is haunting America again. This time it is galvanising a far-right revolution that has traumatised everyone in America (with the likely exception of those inside the MAGA movement) and shocked people elsewhere who thought they ‘knew’ America. This includes those of us who have lived, studied and worked there and […]