New poetry: Rapture’s Road; And Then the Hare; Landscape of the Body; All the Good Things You Deserve
New work by Seán Hewitt, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lani O’Hanlon and Elaine Feeney
New poetry by Theo Dorgan, Julie-Ann Rowell, David Nash and Susannah Dickey
Reviews: Once was a Boy; Inside Out; No Man’s Land; Isdal
Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills: Family fables, hidden truths
This engaging and fearless memoir follows the trail of a disappeared cousin
The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan: A fierce and vital collection
Meehan’s haunted poems are talismans held against personal loss and our changing, darkening world
Resting Places: On Wounds, War and the Irish Revolution by Ellen McWilliams
A happy, safe childhood that nevertheless senses the darker history which eventually emerges in all its troubling detail
New poetry: Woman of Winter is as relevant to 21st-century women as it is true to spirit of original
As the sense of grief and loss builds, the assonance and alliteration so vital to the original Irish is released in exhilarating waves
New poetry: Jane Clarke, Maura Dooley, Airea Matthews and Dylan Brennan
Reviews: A Change in the Air; Five Fifty Five; Bread and Circus; Let the Dead
The Family Plot by Clair Wills: A triptych of compelling, if unsettling, essays
A focus on ‘the encounter between vulnerable human bodies and the institutions that have been designed to contain, regulate and control them’
Up Late by Nick Laird: A passionate, angry, brilliant elegy to his father’s death with Covid
Up Late, passionate and angry as Hamlet, is formally brilliant, an exercise in control
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes — ‘an inexplicable joy’
Direct and painfully honest, this book shows what a match Hughes is for fearless, funny George
The best recent poetry: new work from Harry Clifton, Andrew Fitzsimons and Majella Kelly
Plus, a new collaboration between Paul Muldoon and American painter Philip Pearlstein
Running Feet, Sharp Noses: Essays on the Animal World - Reads like a classic
Spirited and intense, compact as poetry, engaging with the stylish creatures that haunt its pages
The Art and Ideology of Terence MacSwiney: Caught in a Living Flame
A comprehensive source for any reader interested in raising the man from the ghost of his legend
Ordinary Time by Carmel McMahon: A gripping memoir of emigrating, getting drunk and getting sober
McMahon’s story of getting lost in New York before searching for her roots ripples out as it moves back in time