Poetry

Plus an ‘immersive’ new book by Gail Simmons and a ‘fast-paced, pithy novel with bark-out-loud laughs’ by Fran Littlewood

A new work by Greg Delanty

A new poem by John Kinsella

A new work by Carmen Bugan

Two new works by Eugene O’Connell

A new work by Jean O’Brien

A new work by Paul Casey

New works by Ben Keatinge and Ivy Bannister

In memory of Seamus Heaney

The Tamil poet reflects on her new work The Book of Desire and her distinguished career

Irreverent, provocative and anti-establishment artist blessed with an intimate way of talking to people

A new work by John F Deane

A new work by Jemma Walsh

Mr Higgins (56) was diagnosed with leukemia last summer and faced his death with trademark humour

Reviews: Separated from the Sun; The Book of Desire; Arctic Elegies; The Thankless Paths to Freedom

A new work by Ilhan Sami Çomak, translated by Caroline Stockford

John A Griffin explains the many inspirations for his new poetry collection which he began in the ‘80s

To mark the first anniversary of the death of poet Thomas Kinsella, we publish a poem dating from the beginning of his writing life, which has not appeared in any of his collections

Ten years after the death of Dennis O’Driscoll, Enda Wyley remembers humour in both the poet and the man

Hillary Dziminski introduces Hold Tight, a poem that Erin Fornoff will perform at the “Back Home” Christmas Concert at EPIC Museum in Dublin

A new work by Cathy Leonard

Today’s poem is from Leland Bardwell’s Collected Poems (Salmon Poetry), recently published to commemorate what would have been her 100th birthday

Today’s poem is from The Translations of Seamus Heaney, just published by Faber

A new work by Mark Roper

Also a translation diary by Daniel Hahn, Darren McGarvey on understanding social inequality, and Sadie Jones’s witty novel about farm life

A Poem from Jim McElroy’s award-winning collection, We Are The Weather, has been shortlisted for Irish Poem of The Year. The poet reflects on his journey to writing Unmaking His Chair

A new work by Sara Berkeley

A new work by Rachael Hegarty

Martina Evans reviews Zaffar Kunnial; Mark Roper; Sara Berkeley; Tom French

How a tip-off from Roy Foster inspired Martina Evans’ poem about an Irish revolutionary

Reviews: Four collections of exceptional quality, including the US poet laureate, two Irish giants and an arresting, elegiac debut

Poet reflects on his latest collection, The Slain Birds, and his literary life

Martina Evans reviews Maureen Boyle; Rosamond Taylor; Linton Kwesi Johnson; James Conor Patterson

New works by Michael Augustin and Peter Denman

A new work by Rita Ann Higgins

Seán Hewitt on Quiet; Beast; Scale; and Cnámh agus Smior/Bone and Marrow

A new poem by Maurice Devitt

A new poem by Caitlin Doyle

A new poem by Ciaran O’Driscoll in memory of Pearse Hutchinson

Philip Terry on interpreting the Lascaux cave paintings as poetry