Poetry

Caldron Bubble

Where the line that separates our lives from chaos seems alarmingly thin

Poetry

Surviving

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

Poetry

Beyond the Ordinary

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

Literature

Stalking Truth

Geraldine Mitchell’s four collections have in part sprung from insights gleaned from a lifetime of covert observation

Cinema

Compelling the Heart to Care

A new Spanish-Irish film documentary manages to profit handsomely from the practical advice of film genius André Bazin, founder of the influential

World Literature

Drawing Death’s Sting

In ‘Origami Doll’, the poems of Shirley McClure’s entire career whisper to each other as the newer ones shed light on the earlier ones and…

Irish History

With Proust Down Memory Lane

Ciaran Berry’s ability to move mercurially between simplicity and complexity, between a soufflé-light surface and deeper levels redolent of the rich complexity of a figgy…

Irish Literature

Surveying the Wreckage

As both a global writer and an Irish poet, a noteworthy aspect of Jo Burns’s poetry is, rather than the way she views the world,…

Irish Literature

Giant Step

While Geraldine Mitchell’s two preceding volumes of poetry were notably cohesive, in her new collection she constructs a more all-embracing context while maintaining an easily…