Cork International Poetry Festival:19-23 March

by Suella Holland | Mar 5, 2019 | Events, News, Poetry, Readings

Spring sees the beginning of festivals around the country and what better way to start the literary festival year than with Cork International Poetry Festival which runs from 19th – 23rd March 2019. 10.00pm Wednesday 20 March Michelle O’Sullivan & Mary...

January 2019 Poem of the Month

by Suella Holland | Jan 3, 2019 | News, Poems of the Month

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...

Books of the Year 2018

by Suella Holland | Dec 17, 2018 | News

Books of the Year for 2018 from various publications:  Against the Clock by Derek Mahon ‘The poems in Derek Mahon’s Against the Clock have his signature elegance, irony and melancholy; they also display a new lightness, as though he has come to accept...

October Poem of the Month: Michelle O’Sullivan

by Suella Holland | Oct 4, 2018 | News, Poems of the Month

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...

Missing Voices Seminar: 6 October

by Suella Holland | Sep 24, 2018 | Events, Poetry

Missing Voices Seminar: Irish Women Poets of the 18th-20th Centuries 10.00am-6.00pm Saturday 6 October 2018:  Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 Tickets: Free, register for a place in advance Hosted by Poetry Ireland, this seminar is an exploration of...