Contents Poetry Ireland Review 125

Eavan Boland 5 editorial Rosamund Taylor 7 pride 2017 Knute Skinner 8 the raspberry tarts Moya Cannon 9 bread Derek Mahon 10 ophelia 12 trump time Partridge Boswell 14 ode to invasive species Kerry Hardie 15 review: philip schultz, carol rumens, ian duhig Ethna McKiernan 19 storm, lake superior Martina Evans 20 love Sean H McDowell 21 chicken soup Eleni Cay 23 oranges are the only fruit EE Jones 24 phoenix park murders Nessa O’Mahony 25 review: rosemarie rowley, mary turley-mcgrath Joyce Wilson 29 i freed a dove today John Kinsella 30 this is no homesteader fantasy Peggie Gallagher 31 the violin John Wall Barger 32 idiotic racist bully song Dermot J Archer 34 church going Arun Sood 35 the corran ferry Gabriel Rosenstock 36 essay: cuimhne ar liam ó muirthile 39 essay: remembering liam ó muirthile Liam Ó Muirthile 42 cad é Kiera McGarry 43 pantoum for the wake in ballystrudder Lynn Harding 44 south terrace James Harpur 45 scribe b Gary Allen 47 eddie and the goat Art Ó Súilleabháin 48 the horologist Ben Dombroski 50 white noise machine: whales Peter Sirr 51 review: douglas dunn, andrew motion, david harsent Mark Baker 56 the scarecrow Linda Opyr 57 where the eye wants coast John W Sexton 58 the ownership of the yellow purse Jane Robinson 61 materials required Frank Ormsby 62 the sound of trains Patrick Kehoe 63 what remains after the wind Robyn Rowland 64 that together, we went Fred Johnston 65 review: eamonn lynskey, kate noakes, dawn wood, joan newmann Oliver Mort 70 the number 61 bus Shannon Kelly 71 kintsugi Martin Malone 72 bidden Julie Hungiville LeMay 74 losing my brother Matthew Geden 75 review: kevin higgins, eamonn wall, catherine ann cullen Peter Sirr 80 the meadow Amy Gaffney 81 in a pickle of a place Mairéad Byrne 82 cocks Owen Gallagher 84 the saddest passing Liam O’Neill 85 there is nothing of me here Jade Murphy 86 paint Ailbhe McDaid 87 essay: ‘laying holy miles between myself and home’: sara berkeley’s ecopoetics Lucy Collins 96 review: THE POETICS OF MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH POETRY Kate O’Neill 99 away with you Scott McKendry 100 greasepaint Iain Twiddy 102 the shredder Mark Granier 103 workshop Katie Sheehan 104 lightchasing Attracta Fahy 105 encounters Ray Givans 106 development David Butler 107 review: stephanie conn, sean borodale, ellen cranitch, adam wyeth James Finnegan 112 the mathematician in me Laura Paul Watson 113 secondary forest Julie-Ann Rowell 114 orkney birthday Peter Fallon 115 bog cotton 116 this world is worth its grief Dawn Sullivan 117 in the consulting room Cathal Ó Searcaigh 118 listening to the first cuckoo call on a sunny afternoon at the end of april Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 119 review: anna frater, liam ó muirthile Bogomil Gjuzel 124 to my ex-yugoslav friends from fyrom Eavan Boland 125 featured poet: toby buckley Toby Buckley 127 tree forms as a mother and child 128 entryway Hugh O’Donnell 129 time out Janet Shepperson 130 all the books in the universe Tristram Fane Saunders 131 run of the mill Manus Charleton 132 richard murphy at eighty Steven Jay Bourke 133 where is the ball? Sally Van Doren 134 double entendre

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