Kevin Power: Literary magazines are all the more vital for operating off the commercial grid
This rich universe of words includes The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Ragaire, Splonk, Sonder, The Four-Faced Liar, The Pig’s Back, Profiles and Southword
Poetry
New poetry: Works by Niall Campbell, Elisa Gonzalez, John McAuliffe and John Fitzgerald
Reviews: The Island in the Sound; Grand Tour; National Theatre; and Long Distance
Kevin Power: I took a deep dive into Irish literary magazines and would do it again without hesitation
Between Holy Show, Dublin Review of Books, Tolka and the Dublin Review, I had a high stack on my desk
John Montague: A Poet’s Life by Adrian Frazier: ‘ruthless intimacy’
Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’
Derek Mahon: A Retrospective - A collection of essays that bring the poetry alive
The poet was always good, and the more Mahon the better, but it’s possible the best came first
Poem of the Week: Gó gan Ghá/Unnecessary Lie
A new work by Aifric Mac Aodha, translated by David Wheatley
New poetry: Drypoint; The Shark Nursery; Veld Fires; Goodlord
Vona Groarke reviews new work by Jamie McKendrick; Mary O’Malley; Joseph Woods; Ella Frears
David Marcus: Editing Ireland, edited by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden: Rich miscellany of poems, stories and reminiscences
This centenary compilation pays tribute to the pre-eminent editor’s mission to enhance and uphold Ireland’s literary culture
New poetry: Recounting traumatic personal pasts, Kelly Michels and David McLoghlin speak for traumatised societies
Reviews of Geraldine Mitchell’s Naming Love; Kelly Michels’s American Anthem; David McLoghlin’s Crash Centre; and John Mee’s The Blue in the Blue Marble
Fred Johnston obituary: Poet who helped found Cúirt literary festival
In 1978, Johnston went to Galway on a two-week creative writers’ workshop. He never left
New poetry: Old Friends; The Strongbox; Crystal; Coco Island
Reviews of new collections by Aifric Mac Aodha, translated by David Wheatley; Sasha Dugdale; Ellen Cranitch; and Christine Roseeta Walker
Poem of the Week: At the King’s Coronation the talk is of the Weight of his Once-Off Crown
A new work by Clodagh Beresford Dunne
New poetry: Paul Muldoon; Rory Waterman; Katie Donovan; and Harry Josephine Giles
Vona Groarke reviews Joy In Service on Rue Tagore; Come Here To This Gate; May Swim; Them
A poem in memory of the late Eibhear Walshe
Bury Him With Green Carnations by Liz Quirke celebrates the life of her UCC colleague
New poetry: Ancient Burial Ground; Cargo; Silver; After You Were I Am
Reviews of new work by Will Burns; Polina Cosgrave; Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Camille Ralphs
Cairn by Kathleen Jamie: Poetic meditation on climate change and global instability
Environmental writer uses her late middle age to offer perspectives on future prospects fraught with uncertainty
New poetry: Aoife Lyall, Eamon Grennan, K Patrick and Armen Davoudian
Reviews of The Day Before, Of Shards and Tatters, Three Births and The Palace of Forty Pillars
Dermot Healy: Poetry in coastal erosion
Ten years on from the writer’s death, the simple Sligo cottage in which he worked still stares out to sea
Alvy Carragher: ‘Poetry seems to pull out and piece together the heart of the matter’
What Remains the Same is published by the Gallery Press
First winner of Caterpillar Poetry Prize wins again
UK children’s laureate Joseph Coelho chooses Louise Greig 10 years after her first success
New poetry: All Souls; Into the Night that Flies So Fast; We Go On; Baby Schema
Reviews of Saskia Hamilton, Milena Williamson, Kerry Hardie and Isabel Galleymore
Sweeney: An Intertonguing by Rody Gorman - A multilingual journey like no other
An ocean of gorgeous lyric poems, delicate songs and tidal litanies in modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and English
Gerald Dawe, poet of ‘the ordinary and the everyday’, dies aged 72
Inaugural director of TCD’s Oscar Wilde Centre was to receive major US award
Irish translation of Paradise Lost found again in University of Illinois collection
Irish academic traces 19th-century Irish manuscript to US university collection
What does it mean to love someone today? To be a gay person? To be Irish?
Mícheál McCann’s collection Devotion centres on Keen for A–, a queer retelling of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
Poetry not pints as old pub a new home for publishers after fundraising campaign
Managing director of Salmon Publishing Jessie Lendennie ‘astounded’ by generosity of those who pledged money to her cause via GoFundMe
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