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Massacre of the Birds- Mary O'Donnell
The range of poems in Massacre of the Birds moves from an encounter with water creatures in ‘Hanging House in a Canal’ to the appearance of a satyr in O’Donnell’s back garden in ‘Muse.’ Mythic nature abounds, but wake-up calls to social denial a...
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Pathogens Love A Patsy - Pandemic and Other Poems- Rita Ann Higgins
In Pathogens Love A Patsy, Rita Ann Higgins bears witness to a moment in Irish life unlike any seen in a century: the Covid-19 crisis. Many of these pandemic poems, broadcast on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio 1 radio show, were composed weekly in d...
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Smitten Soul- Gabriel Fitzmaurice
“A wonderfully coherent and satisfying collection – and a very moving one. I was thinking of Seamus Heaney and Emily Dickinson talking about telling the truth slant: this book tells it four-square. It is wonderful”.
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Katie - Poems for the Young and Young at Heart- Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Completed before his A Farewell to Poetry, Katie: Poems for the Young and Young at Heart gathers the best of Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s poems dealing with the first five years of his granddaughter’s, Katie Crowl...
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A Beautiful Pain- Catherine Barry
Don’t judge me for dying.
Don’t judge me for still being alive.
“There is an urgency to Catherine Barry's work, a determination to take the reader's arm and make the...
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Do Not Touch- Sandra Ann Winters
“Sandra Ann Winters’ ‘Our Irish Garden’ is a delicious procession of rhyming couplets using an extended garden metaphor…”
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The Chanter's Reed- James Ragan
Praise for James Ragan's Poetry
“James Ragan’s poems spare no passion in believing they sing.”
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In the Kingdom of Autumn- Daniel Thomas Moran
Moran’s is an egalitarian poetry which will attract readers who do not usually read poetry and this is as great an achievement as any high modernist grail.
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Where the Lighthouse Begins- Timothy Houghton
What lies behind much of the lyric poems in Where the Lighthouse Begins is a motivating sense of loss: in some poems, a dead father, an aging mother, a troubled brother; or, in other poems, a conflict, such as a war. The natural world also plays a major...
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Among the Gliesians- Philip Fried
In Among the Gliesians, Philip Fried continues experimenting with different registers of language, technical jargon, and a variety of literary and non-literary forms, ranging from sonnet, ballad, acrostic, and villanelle to press release and report. His...
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