Irish Poetry

'I have lived in important places, times. When great events were decided. 'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.

Whatever coasts I find myself on offer some small relief. Spare a thought for me, staying out of the sun, reading, channel surfing, counting the days until the flight home.

Whatever coasts I find myself on offer some small relief. Spare a thought for me

— staying out of the sun, reading, channel surfing, counting the days until the flight home.’

Special Limited Edition It is printed on Mohawk Superfine and casebound in linen with blind embossed title in a Pergamenata wraparound. Rising Late is the seventh title in this greatly admired series. The Last Walk and The Riverbank Field by Seamus Heaney (and Martin Gale), Conversation in the Mountains by John Banville (and Donald Teskey) and A Man's World by Brian Friel (and Basil Blackshaw) are out of print. A limited number of signed copies of Somewhere the Wave by Derek Mahon (and Bernadette Kiely) and Wayside Shrines by Paul Muldoon (and Keith Wilson) are still available.

The award to Aifric Mac Aodha of the 2017 Oireachtas Prize for Poetry confirmed her position in the vanguard of younger Irish women poets.

Now he turns his hand to a poem by Hesiod (c.700 bce) which was a model for Virgil’s ‘song of the earth’. In his rendition of the work commonly referred to as Works and Days the energy of his sprightly verses propels a version of man’s origins, an ancient almanac, a store of instructions for the best way to live on earth and the drama of the poet’s address to, and condemnation of, his brother, Perses. 

Now he turns his hand to a poem by Hesiod (c.700 bce) which was a model for Virgil’s ‘song of the earth’. In his rendition of the work commonly referred to as Works and Days the energy of his sprightly verses propels a version of man’s origins, an ancient almanac, a store of instructions for the best way to live on earth and the drama of the poet’s address to, and condemnation of, his brother, Perses. Peter Fallon’s skills as a translator have never been more clear.

Live Streaming, Conor O’Callaghan’s first book since The Sun King was rapturously welcomed, is a book of many registers: the recent past’s ‘traumatic quotidian’, the seasons of a caravan park, a rhapsodic ode to marriage, a schoolboy imagining Petrarch’s love of Laura while praying for a heavyweight title contender.

Live Streaming, Conor O’Callaghan’s first book since The Sun King was rapturously welcomed, is a book of many registers: the recent past’s ‘traumatic quotidian’, the seasons of a caravan park, a rhapsodic ode to marriage, a schoolboy imagining Petrarch’s love of Laura while praying for a heavyweight title contender.

Andrew Jamison's impressive new collection shows a deepening of style and substance. It ranges from recollections of a sojourn in Paris ('Souvenir'), resorts in his native County Down and various sports stadia to contemplation of 'Becoming a Box-Set Detective'.