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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
