by Suella Holland | Jun 3, 2015 | News, Reviews
Signes: A Review of Ciaran Carson’s ‘From Elswhere’ For a poet, there are easier things than translations. The translating poet inevitably has to face the gnawing burden of writing for two people. “It’s a desperate system of double-entry... by Suella Holland | Jun 3, 2015 | News, Reviews
The Boys of Bluehill by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin review — distinctive and rewarding A murmur of nuns, dens, ruins … Ireland’s secret histories and the pain of the past
echo through this powerful collection The late Peter Porter had a peculiar blind spot... by Suella Holland | Feb 25, 2015 | Reviews
The Rooms is Peter Sirr’s eighth collection. A beautifully orchestrated meditation upon the meaning of the word ‘home’, it weighs in at just over one hundred pages and is thus a substantial addition to his work. By profession, Sirr is a linguist, teacher and... by Suella Holland | Jan 27, 2014 | News, Reviews
THE LISTENER The Outnumbered Poet: Critical and Autobiographical Essays, by Dennis O’Driscoll It must have been in the early 1980s that I first met Dennis O’Driscoll, possibly after he published his first poetry collection, Kist (1982), and before the follow-up... by Suella Holland | Jan 27, 2014 | News, Reviews
FROLICKING IN THE ETHER The Dead Zoo by Ciaran Berry The “personhood debate” is news that stays news, ready to be puzzled over with each slow birth and slow death. To the expectant mother, the creature kicking inside her, in its infinite strangeness and infinite... by Suella Holland | Dec 16, 2013 | News, Poetry, Reviews, Uncategorized
It is good to see the publication by The Gallery Press of the late Dennis O’Driscoll’s The Outnumbered Poet, Critical and Autobiographical Essays. Known for his wide-ranging interest and encyclopaedic knowledge of the poetry scene, this posthumous...