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Angel Hill

Michael Longley has been the recipient of some of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, including the Whitbread, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and most recently the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize. Longley calls his home in Carrigskeewaun, Co Mayo his ‘soul-landscape’; the environment that feeds and inspires his soul. In Angel Read More

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Psalmody (Shortlisted, 2017 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Debut Collection)

I cannot help but question: Does he know the Lord? … So what’s his life about? I want to know. “8” It seems misrepresentative to call this prize-winning début a “collection”. The word implies that each item within has distinctive merit to be effective in its own right. In the case of Apichella’s work, it Read More

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FOURTH PERSON SINGULAR (SHORTLISTED, 2017 FORWARD POETRY PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION)

At the intersection of poetry, philosophy, and psychoanalysis lies Nuar Alsadir’s Fourth Person Singular. The title is a play on words. If to speak in the third person is to speak removed from the situation, the proposed fourth expands on this separation This manifests in the dreamy detachment and self-reflective awareness that underlines the collection. Teetering in Read More

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The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (Shortlisted, 2017 TS Eliot Poetry Prize for Best Collection)

This is Tara Bergin’s second poetry collection; her first, published in 2013, This is Yarrow, won the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine/Strong Award so it comes as no surprise that The Tragic Death of Eleonore Marx should excite much interest. Deservedly so, this is a collection from a unique poetic voice. Playful, dreamlike, with Read More

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Stranger, Baby (Shortlisted, 2017 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection)

“The loss of a mother must be something very strange…”. This epigraph from Sigmund Freud sets the scene for Emily Berry’s superb second collection, Stranger, Baby, which concerns the sense of dislocation, “dismantlement” and alterity brought about by intense grief. The suicide of her mother left the narrator/Berry all at sea from the age of Read More

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Kingdom of Gravity (Shortlisted, 2017 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Debut Collection)

Such men rise in the ranks and can only be removed by death or revolt … (“Candidate A”) In the 1970s, before the advent of our daily intake of internet reporting, the name Idi Amin Dada evoked a vague sense of horror too distant for the details of his reign of terror to be clear. Read More

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On Balance (Shortlisted, 2017 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection)

     Time, which is itself encased     in stunning script: Baikal     poured into a single     shell or glass receptacle. Belfast folk aver there was nothing wrong with the Titanic when she left their slipway. As that city’s inaugural laureate Sinéad Morrissey arrives in Newcastle, her most recent collection On Balance opens by contemplating the fated liner’s Read More

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The Art of Dying

The Art of Dying would seem an incongruous title for Adam Wyeth’s astonishing new poetry collection, because it is so richly alive with nature’s characters – personified trees, ducks, Mafioso foxes… But two particular characters give the title its meaning: a man and his dying father. Wyeth is already a lauded poet, his previous work Read More

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Aeneid, Book V1

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s pre-eminence as a poet is too well known to need any elucidation of course, but perhaps it is worth noting here that his prowess as a translator was also already evident in his  Beowulf.  Heaney undertook his verse translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid to honour the memory of Read More

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Lus na Tùise/Lavender

Lus na Tùise is, by any standard, a beautiful book and it is, perhaps, fitting that this parallel Gaelic-English collection was published in Nova Scotia.  Those who have set expectations of what Gaelic poetry may be, are already alerted that all is not as it seems; Marcas Mac an Tuairneir hails from Yorkshire and has Read More

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