Essays
At Bates Motel
Grief, addiction, abuse, self-harm, motherhood, breakdown, hilarity
Gimme Shelter
The schemes and stratagems that help the rich stay rich
Hard Power
Thucydides and the pursuit of domination through warfare
Walking the Wild Side
Wintering out in Mayo’s lonely glens and boglands
Witness to War
Peadar O’Donnell walks into Franco’s military revolt
Parents and Newcomers
Poetry and place: the case for transnationalism and translocalism
The Fascist Precursor
Fiume and the ‘poetic dictatorship’ of Gabriele d’Annunzio
The Light Fantastick
Dickens: master of imagination and verbal fancy footwork
A Grand Passion
Nora Barnacle’s life with ‘an envious, proud, lonely, discontented man’
Join the Queue
A fictional exploration of ideas pushed to their logical conclusion
Peeling the Onion
Let us look at Trump – so we don’t have to have him again.
Against the Clock
In his new collection, Greg Delanty makes another valuable contribution to the poetry of environmental consciousness.
Love Hurts
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, a refreshingly honest and often uncomfortable meditation on the relationship between desire, self-destruction and the female body
Freefall in the Suburbs
In Danielle McLaughlin’s first novel brief moments of high drama intermingle with journeys into the complex, foggy territory
In Defence of the Gàidhealtachd
Activists concerned to protect the oldest of all living Scottish languages have been wrongly accused of perpetrating a sort of nationalist essentialism.
They Heard the Call
A history of Ireland’s main Catholic seminary has a much wider focus than the merely institutional
Stalking Truth
Geraldine Mitchell’s four collections have in part sprung from insights gleaned from a lifetime of covert observation
In Rothko’s Rooms
Ekphrastic poems allow a poet to amplify and expand the meaning of the piece of art being viewed.
