Contents Poetry Ireland Review 115 Vona Groarke 5 editorial Frances Corkey Thompson 6 ciphers 7 traveller talk V P Loggins 8 of bats Ciarán Parkes 9 island Thomas Pirkle 10 homage to jean rhys Thomas McCarthy 11 review: michael longley, michael smith, pearse hutchinson Billy Ramsell 16 review: alyson hallett, sheenagh pugh, john burnside Martin Monahan 20 the kuleshov effect Monica Corish 22 wing mirror, butterfly Eoghan Walls 23 an x-ray vision on the train to glasgow 24 the religious impulse in a busted face 25 the horror Jessica Traynor 26 on sackville place 27 ikea sleep Catherine Phil MacCarthy 28 review: claire dyer, mary turley-mcgrath, noel king Biddy Jenkinson 31 v 31 cúram scríbhneora 31 fáinleoga sa ghréig Wendy Mooney 32 buying time Mícheál Ó hAodha 33 review: caitríona ní chléirchín, philip cummings, seán ó dúrois, derry o’sullivan, marcus mac conghail Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 37 review: somhairle macgill-eain, maoilios caimbeul Liam Ryan 42 the meadow

Edward Doegar 43 two ku r_ in˜ci verses Jocelyn Page 44 every so often, a letter 45 he gathered things from the black hills’ trail David Wheatley 46 review: rosemary tonks, peter manson Miriam Gamble 50 review: zo ë skoulding, pascale petit, kerry hardie Leontia Flynn 53 the radio John Sewell 57 one day Richard Lambert 58 snow at the window 59 to the moon Andrew Deloss Eaton 60 the philosopher 61 men in water Maria Johnston 62 review: geoffrey hill James Aitchison 67 carseland diary Lucy Ingrams 68 today 69 august Dairena Ní Chinnéide 70 baineann Sien Deltour 71 interview: with eiléan ní chuilleanáin Jennifer A McGowan 83 the scale of things Dan O’Brien 84 the war reporter paul watson ... Tadhg Russell 85 inland Susan Donnelly 86 flash mob Isabelle Cartwright 87 review: peter denman, sheila wingfield, emily cullen Jim Maguire 92 surfacing 94 nannerl, who never became a composer ... Beverley Bie Brahic 95 the jar of apricots 96 the good wife 98 near knossos, a borrowed house Siobhán Campbell 99 review: patricia monaghan, john w sexton, donna s ørensen, aubrey malone Andrew Fitzsimons 103 review: thomas kinsella David Cooke 106 falling Simon West 107 the taking up of worldly pursuits Ocean Vuong 108 (stanza break) Hannah Jansen 109 lesson in grief at coney island Anna Woodford 110 facial Lesley Harrison 111 mirror mirror 112 north : birds Philip Cummins 113 review: elaine feeney, susan millar dumars, micheal o’siadhail Justin Quinn 117 review: jody allen randolph’s EAVAN BOLAND Hugh O’Donnell 120 to my sister in faversham Geraldine Mitchell 121 how the body remembers Jordie Albiston 122 it Patrick Maddock 123 distances Jonathan Ellis 124 review: THE WAKE FOREST SERIES OF IRISH POETRY, volume III Gearóid Denvir 128 review: seán ó ríordáin Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin 131 siamsaíocht 132 guí Deirdre Doherty 134 hummingbird 135 john’s poem / fragment 136 dear john Gerard Smyth 137 thanksgiving 138 mississippi Judy Brown 139 praise poem for the urbanites Gerald Dawe 140 review: mark strand George Szirtes 143 review: tom paulin, ciaran carson, louis de paor Liam Ó Muirthile 147 out the back Stephen Connolly 148 another exchange Ciarán O’Rourke 149 the prisoner Dermot Healy 153 the plough Notes on Contributors 154