Review of Ní Chuilleanáin’s Collected Poems

by Suella Holland | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Reviews

Mission Accomplished Gerard Smyth reviews Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Collected Poems. In an early profile of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin when she was only twenty-six, the poet Hayden Murphy noted the “individualistic tone that marks her down not merely as a verbal...

Poem of the Month – February 2021

by Suella Holland | Feb 9, 2021 | News, Poems of the Month

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s ‘The Pastoral Life’ from her Collected Poems is our Poem of the Month for February 2021.   The Pastoral Life You remember how often we stopped at that corner house to drink lemonade in the kitchen and cycled on down to...

Books of the Year 2020

by Suella Holland | Dec 8, 2020 | News, Poetry

Books of the Year for 2020 from various publications:  Washing Up by Derek Mahon The deaths of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon have left a void in the lives of their readers. Both completed a new collection of poetry before they died – Eavan Boland’s is The Historians;...

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin wins Chinese Poetry Prize

by Suella Holland | Dec 1, 2020 | Awards, News

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is this year’s recipient of the 1573 International Poetry Award, one of China’s highest literary honours. Usually presented during a ceremony at the International Festival of Poetry and Liquor in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, the prize...

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Collected Poems Launch

by Suella Holland | Dec 1, 2020 | News

We were very happy to collaborate with MoLI and Poetry Ireland in celebrating the publication of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Collected Poems. Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley led an easy-going and absorbing conversation with Eiléan where she talked about her family, her early...