Poetry Ireland Review Issue 109

by John F Deane

There are very few magazine outlets for the longer poem, or the sequence (or even the longish poem), so this issue of Poetry Ireland Review offers several such pieces. The issue begins with a poem by the poet of the ultimate sequence collection , The Book of Nightmares Galway Kinnell. Jubilate celebrates another long poem sequence, initiated by Christopher Smart and, as a longish poem, it celebrates poetry and poets, too, and the undying spirit of the work. I have also selected parts of the long sequence Trodden Before , by Patricia McCarthy, to give some sense of what the whole piece is offering.
Includes poems by Galway Kinnell, Peter Sirr, Harry Clifton, Damian Smyth, Michelle O Sullivan, Fred Johnston, Louis Mulcahy and Eleanor Hooker; alongside translations by John F Dean and Eva Ström, an interview with Bernard O Donoghue and reviews of Louis de Paor, Harry Clifton and Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

128 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2013

Reviews

[Tom Langemo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read with a diverse set of perspectives. It even had some poems about Minnesota! Always a joy to pick something from a used bookstore and find something cool to come back to.