Contents Poetry Ireland Review 129

Eavan Boland 5 editorial Patrick Slevin 7 night boat Eleanor Hooker 8 a landscape forfeited to snow Amanda Bell 10 xmas Eilis Stanley 11 my sister’s garden Fred Johnston 12 1941 Enda Wyley 13 review: mary noonan, noel monahan, moya roddy, gabriel fitzmaurice Francis O’Hare 18 a breath of sea Jack Coughlan 20 diaspora Marie Herbert 22 old pain as well as new Catherine Gander 23 review: erika meitner, tracy k smith Nicola Healey 29 sweet pea Aoife Reilly 30 genesis Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal 31 housing crisis on raglan road Enda Wyley 32 solar eclipse Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman 33 sea dream Beverley Bie Brahic 34 eduardo Niamh Nic Ghabhann 35 review: lavinia greenlaw, jo slade, nessa o’mahony Mary O’Donnell 40 my mother remembers her irish Nathan Fidler 42 hay fever Maureen Gallagher 43 elegy for a good mother Sandra Yannone 44 gratitude workshop notebook #12, 1991 Deirdre Cartmill 46 torn Seán Hewitt 47 review: vona groarke, frank mcguinness Mary Montague 50 requiem Ger Feeney 51 a smart bollix Ivy Bannister 53 maternity 1924 Aoife Lyall 54 month’s mind Jessica Traynor 55 review: maureen boyle, ciarán o’rourke, eithne lannon Jean Riley 59 out of here Colette Tennant 60 the daughter i didn’t have Luke Morgan 62 refurbishment Nicola Geddes 63 find two stones ... Morag Smith 64 nevertheless Ciarán O’Rourke 65 essay: william carlos williams in ireland Doreen Duffy 72 an altered landscape John Wedgwood Clarke 74 for sale Frank Farrelly 75 another home Máiríde Woods 76 the hole in the floor Anne Irwin 78 living in an ideal world Peter Adair 79 bonfire Martin Malone 80 review: stephen sexton, sophie collins Kelly Creighton 84 perception of depth OR deep end Brian Kirk 85 googling my parents Bebe Ashley 86 from there is a reason this is called shame Alison Brackenbury 87 7 august, 1983 Dane Holt 88 ford escort Eimear Bourke 89 frankie black Richard Hayes 90 review: john w sexton, rachael hegarty, anne fitzgerald Seán Kelly 95 july Zosia Kuczyn´ska 96 cliffhanger Geraldine Mitchell 97 bully boy Angela McCabe 98 a day’s work Helen Pizzey 100 condolence Grace Wells 101 review: susan millar dumars, eileen sheehan, kate newmann Tim Dwyer 108 uncertain salvation Jamie Stedmond 109 notes on a holiday (fragments) B. Anne Adriaens 110 consider the caretaker Eoin Hegarty 111 sea life, bray Thomas McCarthy 112 review: MAKING INTEGRAL: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON RICHARD MURPHY Simon Ó Faoláin 115 na blascaodaí ag caoineadh jackeen 116 el memorioso 117 dom’ mhac ar bhás a chait Eavan Boland 118 featured poet: paul mccarrick Paul McCarrick 119 waiting for the bomb 119 walking in donadea

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