Contents Poetry Ireland Review 124

Eavan Boland 5 editorial Colm Brennan 6 mindfulness Faye Boland 7 too late Ciarán O’Rourke 8 ros inbhir Daniel Lusk 9 palimpsest Jimmy O’Connell 10 harbour street, tullamore Julie Morrissy 11 review: hannah sullivan, annemarie ní churreáin, emma mckervey Stanley Conn 15 the enemy Simon Ó Faoláin 16 fásach Marion McCready 17 i did not know you, moniack mhor Jean Tuomey 18 gift Jessica Traynor 19 review: alison hackett, amanda bell, rosie shepperd Paula Meehan 23 museum Tony O’Dwyer 29 naming the dead Fiona Sampson 30 review: THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO IRISH POETS Fired! Irish Women Poets 34 essay: preamble to the pledge Ita O’Donovan 37 making room Doireann Ní Ghríofa 38 at derrynane, i think of eibhlín dubh again David Sergeant 39 sonnet looking, for sophie Katie Donovan 40 review: jean bleakney, mark granier, mary dorcey Stiofán Ó hIfearnáin 44 an mháthair adhmaid agus a mac 45 the woodmother and her son Leah Keane 46 the auld fella’s pre-birthday dinner Dan O’Brien 48 one hundred and three Briege Duffaud 49 wasteland Andy Eaton 50 on collapse Thomas McCarthy 51 review: dennis o’driscoll Özgecan Kesici 56 the consequences of silence Travis Mossotti 57 wine fridge Tim Cunningham 58 the ancestral pile revisited Breda Spaight 60 epiphany Laura Linares 61 review: MIGRANT SHORES: IRISH, MOROCCAN AND GALICIAN POETRY Simon Lewis 64 the good room Carol Caffrey 65 sandhya kal Gillian Somerville-Large 66 lazy bed Samuel Green 67 ditch bouquet, inis mór Eriko Tsugawa-Madden 68 page turner Adam Hanna 69 an interview with thomas kinsella 72 essay: thomas kinsella: the civil servant-poet at mid-century Neil Young 77 a shankill mantel Carrie Etter 78 trying to say Neil Curry 79 virginia woolf on self-doubt Johnston Kirkpatrick 80 old goat Howard Wright 81 mullahead Philip Coleman 82 review: two wake forest university press titles Louise G Cole 88 understanding possession Stephanie Conn 89 diving for snails Eavan Boland 90 featured poet: alice kinsella Alice Kinsella 91 hot tub hurricane 93 dawn chorus for the dead SM Kingston 94 in-between Michael G Casey 95 an avenue cuts Paul McMahon 96 ghost-bird Seán Hewitt 97 review: tara bergin, andrew jamison, conor o’callaghan Angela McCabe 101 human sculpture Gabriel Rosenstock 102 ceo 103 fog Cróna Gallagher 104 achill 1972 Joe Wilkins 105 backflip, duncan, ms Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 106 essay: a moving house Caitríona O’Reilly 112 review: THE VIBRANT HOUSE Róisín Sheehy 117 cromáin Lizzy Nichols 118 dublin is no beautiful city & the living room is no place for sex Mark Ward 120 a life in pictures

Notes on Contributors 122