Poetry Review

Living Water is the debut collection from Bernie Crawford. The collection is laid out in three sections, and negotiates themes of womanhood, memory and mortality. Crawford’s time spent living and working in Lesotho, Zambia and Tanzania…

FLOWERS, ALL SORTS IN BLOSSOM. FIGS, BERRIES AND FRUITS FORGOTTEN. Oisín Breen releases his debut poetry collection, an ambitious book in epic style. The book contains three long-form pieces. It explores broad themes…

In A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver states that entering a poem is like, “stepping into a rowboat, with a stranger at the oars.” Liz Quirke’s debut collection, The Road, Slowly, brought me into a new and fruitful land. One where the female…

Monsoon Diary is an enjoyable collection of poems by Joseph Woods who is already an award-winning poet. The poems in this collection show his lyrical and very readable style. Just as the title indicates, the poems form a diary from several…

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be in Dublin at the same time that Poetry Ireland held an event at their building off Parnell Square on the place of Edmund Spenser in Irish poetry. The discussion involved Trevor Joyce, Leanne…

This new collection from Dedalus Press consists of 27 pages of new poetry and around 130 pages of poems taken from John O’Donnell’s three previous collections – Some Other Country (2002), Icarus Sees His Father Fly (2004), and On Water…

In the Winter 2015 issue of the The Stinging Fly Billy Ramsell invited poets to write what Ramsell called souterrains- a kind of layer below, an archaeology of the poems that would feature in the issue. These souterrains were…