Our first Poem of the Month for 2019 comes from Michelle O’Sullivan’s 2015 collection The Flower and the Frozen Sea. Januaries 1 Broken daylight and the wind singing, the sun in threads can’t reach these stone- dense hills or the rain-fed lake. It’s a...
December’s Poems of the Month come from Northern Lights, with poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. Tusa Is...
November’s Poems of the Month come from Calling Cards, a bilingual co-publication between Poetry Ireland and The Gallery Press of Ten Younger Irish Poets with translations into English. Paidir na Maidine géillim don dóchas gurb ann do Dhia tar éis an tsaoil is...
October’s Poem of the Month comes from Michelle O’Sullivan’s forthcoming collection This One High Field Three-fold ON METAPHORS I ought to have thought better of calling in again. I could have let go where we were, the afternoon expiring, the sun on...
September’s Poem of the Month comes from Ciaran Berry’s forthcoming collection Liner Notes Top of the Pops There was either a message in a bottle | or a brown girl in the ring when I squeezed my way between Sister Áine and Sister Catherine in the convent...
August’s Poem of the Month comes from Derek Mahon’s forthcoming collection Against the Clock Horizons Night wind — a continual, baffled aspirate — wanders the water like a vagrant spirit seeking repose but there is no repose till morning, when the tide...
