Poetry Ireland Review / Issue 136, 137, 138 Edited by Colm Keegan, Gerald Dawe and Nessa O’Mahony. Poetry Ireland Review is published three times annually.

Poetry Ireland, Dublin 2022

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Poetry Ireland Review / Issue 136, 137, 138 Edited by Colm Keegan, Gerald Dawe and Nessa O’Mahony. Poetry Ireland Review is published three times annually.
Poetry Ireland, Dublin 2022
Reihe: PI 136, 137, 138
Größe: gr. 8°
Seitenzahl: 128, 128, 176 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Herausgeber: Keegan, Colm
Dawe, Gerald
O'Mahony, Nessa
Anthologie
Lyrik und Prosa
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Poetry Ireland Review Issue 136 : Edited by Colm Keegan Issue 136 of Poetry Ireland Review, edited by Colm Keegan, features new poems from Laura-Blaise McDowell, Dermot Bolger, Mary Noonan, Mark Ward, Nithy Kasa, Will Cordeiro, Rose Strode, and many others. Books reviewed in this issue include the latest titles from Alvy Carragher, John Murphy, Pat Cotter, and Liz Quirke, along with the debut collections from Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Padriag Regan, Bebe Ashley, and Grace Wilentz. In essays, Katie Donovan writes on the passing of Brendan Kennelly, and Bríona Nic Dhiarmada writes on the legacy of Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Issue 136 also features an outstanding artwork inset and cover by Lucy Sheridan. Contents Poetry Ireland Review 136 Colm Keegan 5 editorial Daniel Kraft 6 to the reader Abhainn Connolly 8 why i am no longer a lesbian Melanie Power 9 andromeda Daniel Rattelle 10 painting over the growth chart Sean Ashton 11 some of the dads are leaving Laura-Blaise McDowell 12 this is it Sarah Reichert 13 disruption Jason Barry 14 dear john Kim Ports Parsons 16 the mayapple forest Marta Palandri 18 depersonalise this Jane Frank 19 message Mary Noonan 20 mnd Scott Elder 21 open market Dermot Bolger 22 nocturne variations Warren Mortimer 25 inhaler Ronan Fenton 26 what i would tell you if we were different people Monica de Bhailís 28 nail bar birthday Elinor Clark 30 from the window Tamara Barnett-Herrin 31 give me the name of an ob-gyn Ellen Orchard 32 review: alvy carragher, liz quirke, annemarie ní churreáin David Toms 36 review: john murphy, patrick chapman, adam wyeth Nessa O’Mahony 40 review: daragh bradish, amanda bell, elizabeth mcskeane Tapasya Narang 44 review: grace wilentz, bebe ashley Bríona Nic Dhiarmada 47 essay: máire mhac an tsaoi Louis de Paor 49 máire mhac an tsaoi i melbourne Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh 50 MUTTERRECHT Biddy Jenkinson 51 dónall óg Gabriel Rosenstock 52 conchúr agus máire Stiofán Ó hIfearnáin 54 tost Cathal Ó Searcaigh 55 an file á chomhairliú féin Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 56 aubade Caitríona Ní Chléirchín 57 póg sneachta Pádraig de Bhál 58 margadh na saoire Peter Denman 59 review: louis de paor Renée Agatep 62 the queen of england gives birth Selvi M Bunce 63 rift Amy Crutchfield 64 dolphin Donagh McGrath 65 horse mackerel Owen Gallagher 66 launching the voice Keagan Hawthorne 67 communion Anthony Bradley 68 on hunger’s monument Leo Ryan 69 motorcycle Mark Ward 70 kinetic Mary Kathryn Jablonski 71 so many mothers Julie Sheridan 72 liliac Mackenzie Berry 74 field study of melancholy Michael Bazzett 75 progress Kelly Mullins 76 i only get my news from poetry Ellen Wade Beals 78 at the cemetery Rose Strode 79 baby, again Will Cordeiro 80 parasites Nithy Kasa 82 the herbalist Sarah Mnatzaganian 83 auntie mehribeh, why did we never write you down? Anthony Caleshu 84 glow highness tangent life mind Sinéad Griffin 88 mountain spine Ben Webb 89 dindsenchas Ernest O Ògúnye .mí 90 dream song, slow dance with an ache Phil Keller 92 epitaph DS Waldman 93 breakfast reflection Nicholas Grene 96 review: derek mahon Lind Grant-Oyeye 102 review: hannah copley, jessica traynor Richard Hayes 106 review: patrick cotter, anne tannam, david butler Aoife Lyall 111 review: padraig regan, nidhi zak/aria eipe Katie Donovan 116 essay: brendan kennelly Notes on Contributors 121 Poetry Ireland Review Issue 137 : Edited by Gerald Dawe Issue 137 of Poetry Ireland Review, edited by Gerald Dawe, features new poems from Moya Cannon, Gustav Parker Hibbett, Shannon Kuta Kelly, Afric McGlinchey, Tomás de Faoite, Trudie Gorman, Simon Ó Faoláin, Roan Ellis-O’Neill, Sihle Ntuli, and many others. Books reviewed in this issue include new collections from Colette Bryce, Dense Reilly, Marcus Mac Conghail, Billy Collins, and Colm Tóibín, with Vona Groarke reviewing Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, while in essays Birgit McCone discusses Ukrainian poetry in context and Edna Longley examines poetry reviewing from 1900 to the present. Cover artwork and interior images spotlight the work of artist Mick O'Dea. Contents Poetry Ireland Review 137 Gerald Dawe 5 editorial Alan Zhukovski 6 the gift of secret thoughts Moya Cannon 7 and where were you brought up? Alesha Racine 8 pigeon Shannon Kuta Kelly 9 introit Jamie O’Halloran 10 magical thinking Gustav Parker Hibbett 12 from minotaur Jean O’Brien 13 oubliette Mark O’Flynn 14 interesting times Paddy Bushe 16 naming the rock Afric McGlinchey 17 siege of mariupol Fred Johnston 18 in their travelling time Sihle Ntuli 19 umngeni Judi Sutherland 20 looking for dolphins from the carrickmore road Jean Tuomey 21 message Kate Ennals 22 conjugating night terrors Mark Granier 24 customs Patrick Chapman 25 lens Brian Kirk 26 the last days of pompeii Gerard Smyth 27 thomas kinsella’s dublin Annalise Torcson 28 head of the sea Bibhu Padhi 29 the place where i live John Ennis 30 where the grey crow feeds with the sparrow Tomás de Faoite 31 tortoise ZG Tomaszewski 32 journey in illaunonearaun Linda Curley 33 the survivalist robin Josephine Corcoran 34 high summer world of light Keith Payne 35 falling slowly Roan Ellis-O’Neill 36 araucaria araucana eclogue Vona Groarke 38 review: irish women poets rediscovered Mark Granier 45 review: john o’donnell with barry delaney Brigit McCone 48 essay: the cossack revival: ukrainian poetry in context Justin Quinn 57 review: marcus mac conghail Eibhlís Carcione 60 seanmhná chernobyl Julie Breathnach-Banwait 61 na páistí doirte Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha 62 do chailín óg nach ann di Orlaith Ní Icí 63 cúirt na cóirthrádála Simon Ó Faoláin 64 an leictreoir Róisín Ní Ghairbhí 65 review: simon ó faoláin Liam Carson 68 belfast at twilight Daniel Fraser 69 metamorphoses Milena Williamson 70 he calls and i ring him back Denise Garvey 71 a hymn to those i rarely mention Michael McKeown Bondhus 72 moving through the black and gold currents Ruth Thompson 74 penelope takes odysseus by the oar John O’Donnell 76 bruegel’s children Patrick Moran 78 my first bird book Linda McKenna 79 lineage Cy Forrest 80 strong men, carrying horses Rosemary Jenkinson 82 orchardlands Susan Rich 84 no one knew Emily Barker 85 tulpenbol Heidi Beck 86 in the moment we map them Trudie Gorman 88 home Susan Kelly 89 one stop stall Harry Clifton 90 glasnevin clay Mobolaji Olawale 92 how did it become understandable? Ruth Timmins 93 the big house Kevin Smith 94 experience Gerard Fanning 95 orson welles on the ginza line Lynn Caldwell 96 patrick kavanagh visits the áras and is never invited back Kit Ingram 98 doomscrolling David Wheatley 99 review: andrew mcneillie Martina Evans 102 review: vona groarke, colette bryce Jessica Traynor 106 review: billy collins, colm tóibín, john kelly Karl O’Hanlon 110 review: denise riley, george szirtes Edna Longley 113 essay: poetry reviewing: 1900 and now Declan Ryan 118 review: ian duhig, john mcauliffe Notes on Contributors 121 Poetry Ireland Review Issue 138 : An Eavan Boland Special Issue Edited by Nessa O’Mahony Edited by Nessa O'Mahony, Poetry Ireland Review 138is an Eavan Boland Special Issue, dedicated to the life and legacy of poet and activist Eavan Boland, who was a hugely popular editor of the journal from issues 121 to 129. This issue features personal tributes and reflections along with instructive essays focusing on collections and individual poems from Boland's oeuvre. Featured essayists include Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Thomas McCarthy, Mary Robinson, Colm Tóibín, Martin Evans, and Jody Allen Randolph. The issue also features new work from poets including Moya Cannon, Michael Longley, Supriya Kaur Daliwal, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Mícheál McCann, Sarpong Osei Asamoah, and Lauren Lawler, with new Irish-language poetry from Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and many others. The cover of Poetry Ireland Review138 features a detail from a painting of Eavan Boland as a child, painted by her mother Frances Kelly, with photographs and images within the issue tracking Eavan Boland's life as a poet, mother, and teacher. Contents Poetry Ireland Review 138 Nessa O'Mahony - Editorial, S. 6 Tom French - Essay: 'For Francis Ledwidge', S. 8 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Essay: A knock on the door, S. 11 Mary O'Donnell - The bookshop riot, S. 14 Gerard Smyth - Eavan Boland's Dublin, S. 16 Sarpong Osei Asamoah - Elegy, S. 17 Linda Doyle - Essay: Fertile ground: Eavan Boland at Trinity College Dublin, S. 18 Thomas McCarthy - Essay: 'The Journey', S. 21 Alan Hayes - Essay: Shaping the future, S. 23 Catherine Phil MacCarthy - Essay: The door to poetry, S. 26 John F. Deane - Achill: The Badlands, S. 31 Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal - Book talk, S. 32 Geraldine Mitchell - Sky writing summer's end, S. 33 Enda Coyle-Greene - Essay: 'Outside History', S. 34 Annemarie Ní Churreáin - Inside History, S. 36 Winifred McNulty - Cutaway, S. 37 Kevin Cahill - Blowback, S. 38 John O'Donnell - Essay: This is how, S. 39 Jean O'Brien - Essay: On the journey with Eavan Boland, S. 43 Moya Cannon - The first he'd heard of it, S. 46 Michael Longley - Tapestry
Penelope's Birds
Cassandra, S. 47 Sarah van Santen - Watercolour, S. 48 Anne Coughlan - Mary Anne, S. 49 Eamonn Wall - Essay: 'In a bad light', S. 53 Kathryn Milligan - Essay: 'Wearing her mother's brushstrokes': Eavan Boland and the visual arts, S. 55 Erin Coughlin Hollowell - Who are your people?, S. 59 Siobhán Campbell - Emily Dickinson's Herbarium, S. 60 Stephen Shields - Noah, S. 61 Rachael Hegarty - Essay: 'This Moment', S. 62 This Moment: Meeting Eavan Boland, S. 65 Jane Clarke - Recipe for a bog, S. 66 Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe - What I remember of Kashmir, S. 67 Catherine Phil MacCarthy - Santiago de Compostela, S. 68 Elizabeth Scanlon - At the museum, S. 69 Joseph Woods - Essay: 'Quarantine', S. 70 Mary O'Malley - Essay: Clearing the way, S. 72 Chris Murray - Tree is real silver, S. 77 Emma Tobin - A recipe for light, S. 78 Mícheál McCann - Envoi, S. 80 Peter Sirr - Essay: The soul of the city, S. 82 Michael Dooley - Siege, S. 86 Patrick Wright - Tenebrae, S. 88 Katie Donovan - Essay: 'How the dance came to the city', S. 89 Jessica Traynor - Never, Honey, S. 91 Mary O'Malley - April, S. 92 Eoghan Walls - The returned, S. 93 Jenny Lewis - For Sarah and all those who are/were not protected, S. 94 Lia Mills - Essay: In/fluence, S. 96 Jessie Lendennie - Workshop with Eavan, 1984, S. 101 Nnadi Samuel - The remote possibilities of going extinct, S. 102 Matthew Siegel - Autoimmune, S. 104 Mary Robinson - Essay: Sharing a voice and a vision, S. 105 Alice Kinsella - Nebula (or, premonition), S. 107 Dairena Ní Chinnéide - Tromluí Chorráillí, S. 108 Doireann Ní Ghríofa - An bróiste Rúiseach, S. 109 Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha - MIL, S. 110 Áine Ní Ghlinn - Linne an oíche, S. 111 Aine Uí Fhoghlú - An tráth idir dhá ghile, S. 112 Máirtín Coilféir - Bachelors Walk, S. 113 Eoin P. Ó Murchú - A bheainín phinc, S. 114 Sernin Seal - Má agus dá, S. 115 Joan Newmann - Penelope's grandmother, S. 116 Martina Evans - Essay: 'An elegy for my mother in which she scarcely appears', S. 117 Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan - Essay: On diversity in Irish poetry, S. 119 Lucy Collins - Essay: Persuading a curve into a plane: Eavan Boland and the spaces of Irish Criticism, S. 123 Emma Jo Black - Blackbeard cowers in the corner of my sock drawer, S. 126 Ben Walter - Driftbones, S. 128 Theo Dorgan - Essay: 'The Last Discipline', S. 129 Maeve O'Sullivan - Essay: Using the Line Against Itself, S. 131 Kenneth Fields - The first days without Eavan, S. 134 Kerry Hardie - Last Lines, S. 136 Helena Nolan - Frequencies, S. 137 Lauren Green - Going Home, S. 138 Eleanor Hooker - Essay: 'Eviction', S. 139 Colm Tóibín - Essay: An Education, S. 141 Stephen de Búrca - Takabuti, S. 143 Nan Cohen - Essay: Domestic Interior, S. 144 John Wedgewood Clarke - Conchologist, S. 148 Patrick Deeley - Keepsake, S. 149 Jody Allen Randolph - Essay: Conversations about Poems, S. 150 Clara McShane - Moths, S. 154 Elaine Gaston - School Exercise, S. 155 Lauren Lawler - The Home, S. 156 Úna Ní Cheallaigh - A roof over our heads, S. 157 Hedwig Schwall - Essay: 'Our future will become the past of other women', S. 158 Berni Dwan - Opposites attract, S. 160 Martina Dalton - Heron on the white line of the motorway, S. 161 Audrey Mollow - Making Lasagna, S. 162 John W. Sexton - Midnight claims a poem, then sends another, S. 164 Rosamund Taylor - Dragonfly, S. 165 Sara Backer - Outpatient, S. 166 Pauline Flynn - The coroner's court, S. 167 Paula Meehan - The poet's funeral mass, S. 168 Notes on Contributors

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