Books of the Year 2022
Poetry, Memory and the Party: Journals 1974-2014
‘One of the great pleasures of reading memoirs is the gossip, and McCarthy knows this. But he is also kind and tactful and aware of the wider implications of the stories he might tell after 40 years of activity in Irish literary circles.’ — Alannah Hopkin, Irish Examiner, Books of the Year
‘Tom French’s elegant mediations on the nature of human connection in Company are among the best responses to the pandemic.’ — Martina Evans/Seán Hewitt, Ticket, The Irish Times
[Annemarie] Ní Churreáin’s The Poison Glen . . . concerned with incantation, hexing, history and womanhood . . . ‘Memory is a curse // that keeps on flowering’, as Ní Churreáin has it and [this] collection shows the disturbing and beautiful truth of that idea. — Martina Evans/Seán Hewitt, Ticket, The Irish Times
The Thankless Paths to Freedom
One of Paul Muldoon’s Books of the Year for 2022 is The Thankless Paths to Freedom by Medbh McGuckian, ‘one of our most alert and alluring poets’ — Sunday Independent
