Poetry

Death in the Valley

Poems of flight, new beginnings, sad partings and rich harvests

Poetry

Otters and Orioles

A well-read eye observes nature over the passing years

Poetry

Poetic Bears and Others

An anthology marked by warmth, bigness of heart and generosity of spirit

Poetry

The Stendhal of Norfolk

New poetry volumes from Annemarie Ní Churreáin and George Szirtes

For the Desert Air

Was Ethna MacCarthy intimidated by brilliant male friends? Or was she, as an haut bourgeois Catholic, simply too well brought-up to follow her own literary…

Irish Literature

Saturated with Light

Another perfect volume from Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, the poet of sunlight and cloisters. The collection is a joy to read, and a reminder, yet again,…

Irish Literature

The Bears and the Bees

Paula Meehan is an inspiring presence, the most important thinking poet of her generation. Still, it must be said that there are rogues and ruffians…

Irish Literature

Echoes from the Cistern

There is nothing tentative, or merely suggestive, in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s new collection. Her academic training is outraged by vagueness, so that the poems grab…

Irish Literature

Sharp words from elsewhere

Like a cranky uncle who has spent too long in the tropics, Harry Clifton has thrown insults at every poet-cousin he has read, yet his…