2015

• Irish Literature

  Necessary Things

  There are no pyrotechnics in Gerald Dawe’s new collection; the poems go about their business quietly, presenting the reader, it seems, with cases to be…

  June 8 Issue 68, June 2015
• Irish Literature

  Consoling Songs

  Peter Fallon recognises bleakness – the barbed wire of the concentration camp ‘a crown of thorns around the temple of the world’. But, like Orpheus,…

  February 3 Issue 64, February 2015