Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition Winners

by Suella Holland | Aug 31, 2015 | Awards, News

Congratulations to the winners of this years Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition at the Five Glen Arts Festival which took place in Manorhamilton recently.   1st/Gold: Tom French for ‘West’   Joint 2nd/Silver: John D Kelly for...

Hecuba

by Suella Holland | Aug 20, 2015 | FrontPageSlider

Marina Carr ‘How glorious it all was. How glorious they all were. We mustn’t judge things by their end.’ In the aftermath of the fall of Troy, Agamemnon, the victor, locks horns with Hecuba, the vanquished queen. Both have suffered intimate loss – the sacrifice of a...

The Flower and the Frozen Sea

by Suella Holland | Aug 20, 2015 | FrontPageSlider

Michelle O’Sullivan On the river’s far side dim haystacks have begun to disappear; there are silver needles darning stars. (‘Station’) The Flower and the Frozen Sea follows Michelle O’Sullivan’s auspicious debut and builds on the promise of...

Blaris Moor

by Suella Holland | Aug 19, 2015 | FrontPageSlider

Medbh McGuckian extended the range of Irish poetry. Her gloriously mysterious work calls to mind the rhapsodic utterances of Emily Dickinson and (though with more sensuality) an older contemporary, John Ashbery. Her new collection, Blaris Moor, takes as its title and...

Michelle O’Sullivan Awarded Poetry Book Society Recommendation

by Suella Holland | Aug 12, 2015 | Awards, News

Congratulations to Michelle O’Sullivan on having her forthcoming collection, ‘The Flower and the Frozen Sea’ chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.   Other selections by the PBS are: Choice Tracey Herd – Not in this World (Bloodaxe)...