by Suella Holland | Jan 16, 2017 | News, Reviews
A Playful and Witty Bilingual Feast Her translators echo the wit and playfulness of the Irish-language poet’s originals This book is a selection, with translations by many hands, from Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh’s previous two collections in Irish, Péacadh and Tost agus...
by Suella Holland | Dec 5, 2016 | News, Reviews
Delighted to see a few mentions of Gallery authors in the Irish Times Best Books of 2016: Vona Groarke’s Four Sides Full . . . such an intriguing read. Part autobiography, part essay, it explores life and art in the way that only a poet can. — Olivia O’Leary The...
by Suella Holland | Jan 4, 2016 | News, Reviews
In poetry I was moved by What Just Happened by Sara Berkeley Tolchin. She works as a hospice nurse in America and the everyday realities of death pervade poems that reflect on nursing and explore the relationships between mothers and daughters, written in the shadow...
by Suella Holland | Sep 25, 2015 | News, Reviews
Scapegoat Review – Poetry Magazine Gillis’s skillful modulation of tone and his aphoristic precision allow him to create moments that ring true to feeling and afterthought, articulating the complex emotional resonance of memory. The opening poem,...
by Suella Holland | Jul 14, 2015 | News, Reviews
Complexities of migration, relocation and the journey home Although John McAuliffe’s new book is founded in what the back cover describes as “the domestic spaces and routines” of a contemporary life, subjects of which he is such a master, its general drift is out from...
by Suella Holland | Jul 1, 2015 | News, Reviews
Subtlety is a word that defines the poetry of John McAuliffe, whose previous collection, Of All Places was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. The title of his fourth collection, The Way In, suggests that he is an intuitive poet, who waits until he finds the right...
