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...
by Suella Holland | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Reviews
The Seamus Heaney Centre are putting fast, short-form, reviews of new writing into the world on a weekly basis. This week, Elizabeth McIntosh reviews Grace Wilentz’s The Limit of Light. “‘The line is the line,’ writes Grace Wilentz in The Limit of Light, her...
by Suella Holland | Dec 1, 2020 | News, Reviews
Séan Hewitt reviews Plainchant by Eamon Grennan in The Irish Times. Like the unaccompanied singing of its title, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s Plainchant (Gallery, €11.95) reveal moments and encounters that create or reveal their own sanctity. Each is held together in...
by Suella Holland | Jan 16, 2017 | News, Reviews
A Playful and Witty Bilingual Feast Her translators echo the wit and playfulness of the Irish-language poet’s originals This book is a selection, with translations by many hands, from Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh’s previous two collections in Irish, Péacadh and Tost agus...
by Suella Holland | Dec 5, 2016 | News, Reviews
Delighted to see a few mentions of Gallery authors in the Irish Times Best Books of 2016: Vona Groarke’s Four Sides Full . . . such an intriguing read. Part autobiography, part essay, it explores life and art in the way that only a poet can. — Olivia O’Leary The...
by Suella Holland | Jan 4, 2016 | News, Reviews
In poetry I was moved by What Just Happened by Sara Berkeley Tolchin. She works as a hospice nurse in America and the everyday realities of death pervade poems that reflect on nursing and explore the relationships between mothers and daughters, written in the shadow...
