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.

Louis MacNeice

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From out of the Box

From out of the Box

Ross Moore

Vona Groarke marshals her strengths to poems notably apt for ‘these times’

Longing for Flight

Longing for Flight

Iggy McGovern

Time on our hands: the locked-down poet raids memories of past travel

How much is enough?

How much is enough?

Amanda Bell

Is a chapbook more likely to work as an organic whole than a full collection?

Vibrating Still

Vibrating Still

Maria Johnston

A poem where language is put behind bars and called upon to account for itself

The World Remade

The World Remade

Éamon Mag Uidhir

A journey to motherhood, from miscarriage to the joy of birth

Surviving

Surviving

Dick Edelstein

Poems of strife and discovery that recall Swift, Behan and Durcan

Late Blossoming

Late Blossoming

Maeve O’Sullivan

A moving poetic exploration of impermanence and mortality

Beyond the Ordinary

Beyond the Ordinary

Dick Edelstein

Can a woman living an ordinary life be a Renaissance Man?

Parents and Newcomers

Parents and Newcomers

Justin Quinn

Poetry and place: the case for transnationalism and translocalism

Against the Clock

Against the Clock

Tim Murphy

In his new collection, Greg Delanty makes another valuable contribution to the poetry of environmental consciousness.

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