Contents Poetry Ireland Review 126

Eavan Boland 5 editorial Abayomi Animashaun 7 when lights go out in the village Anthony Caleshu 8 the creaturely amongst us are celebrating the advent of a vanquished species Enda Coyle-Greene 9 angel from montgomery Roderic Vincent 10 poem on a rainy birthday Raine Geoghegan 12 the greenhouse Louise C Callaghan 14 murmuration of starlings Rosie Lavan 15 review: martina evans, maria mcmanus Jenny Carla Moran 20 i live in the vanishing triangle Greg Delanty 22 monarch butterfly Janet Sutherland 23 dilapidations 1 Lucia Kenny 24 roots Milena Williamson 25 the outing John Greening 26 hyperion’s song of destiny John Noonan 27 hymn of innocence Nicholas Grene 28 review: derek mahon, peter fallon Marie Morrin 34 godmother Terry Doyle 36 gardening in mute Colin Pink 37 hopefully to dwell Ali Lewis 38 love poem to your self-sufficiency Gerard Smyth 39 idolatry Phil Kirby 40 landscape/portrait Lottie Limb 41 essay: blanaid salkeld Rachel Coventry 47 all metaphors are flawed Michael Dooley 48 solstice Orla Fay 49 poet in a train station bar Mary O’Donnell 50 doorways Niamh Nic Ghabhann 52 review: colm keegan, elaine feeney, denise blake Maria Isakova-Bennett 57 bregdan Medbh McGuckian 58 responses to weathering Mary Finn 60 on samos Thomas O’Grady 61 envoi Cecilia McGovern 62 crossovers Mary Shine Thompson 63 review: theo dorgan, matthew sweeney, eva bourke Mary Wilkinson 67 stroke Ruth Esther Gilmore 68 oystercatchers Jo Burns 69 as the saying goes, it goes too fast Justin Quinn 70 ivana lomová’s neorealist portrait of a couple Christian Wethered 71 present Thomas McCarthy 72 review: medbh mcguckian, john f deane, james harpur Christina Lloyd 76 at macy’s Deborah Moffatt 77 a night at the averof Mairéad Donnellan 78 exhortation Liam Aungier 79 hedgehogs Nancy Anne Miller 80 mosquito net at elma napier’s estate Mary Kathryn Jablonski 81 heartsease Kathryn Simmonds 82 november Jessica Traynor 83 review: james o’sullivan, liz quirke, colin dardis Laurence O’Dwyer 87 minke whale Elizabeth Scanlon 88 post-post-internet Colette Bryce 89 an amendment 90 untitled, dublin 91 the pigeon Annemarie Ní Churreáin 92 the death of queen scotia Helen Meany 93 review: tom french, joseph woods, leanne o’sullivan Anne Tannam 96 picking figs John Fallon 97 outside calico mack’s Simon Ó Faoláin 98 cánóg dhubh John Smelcer 100 a lingering doubt 100 the day after saturday 101 ravencolour Fióna Bolger 102 be careful what you write Nell Regan 103 essay: the poetry of micheál mac liammóir in translation Richard Tillinghast 112 i tuned up seán’s guitar Eavan Boland 113 featured poet: roisin kelly Roisin Kelly 115 in america 116 domínio vale do mondego Maureen Boyle 117 review: kate dempsey, elaine cosgrove, alice kinsella Lex Runciman 121 news, 1949 Billy Fenton 122 healer 2 Heidi Beck 123 an ending with food and flowers Kathleen McCann 124 crossing to england for harvest work Emer Lyons 125 cork city, 1974 Paul Bregazzi 126 talisman Lorraine Carey 127 starched shirts Bernard O’Donoghue 128 review: seamus heaney Mícheál McCann 131 hook-up Peter Wyton 132 first disobedience Yvonne Reddick 134 spikenard Stephen Knight 135 in my other life

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