I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
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A collection in which many poems are akin to well-worked short stories
Poems marked by fierce imagination and enlivened by puckish wit
Two new poetry collections from Louise Callaghan and Jean O’Brien
The compassionate vision and literary mastery of Eleanor Hooker
New poetry volumes from Annemarie Ní Churreáin and George Szirtes
A poetic memory key, a USB to retrieve a long and well-lived life
Derek Mahon: a poetic style balanced between levity and profundity
Yeats’s authoritarianism: the Rapallo circle and Italian fascism
Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s poetic use of figures from Greek mythology
Where the line that separates our lives from chaos seems alarmingly thin