Contents Poetry Ireland Review 112 John F Deane 5 editorial Pádraig J Daly 8 incarnation 11 blinded 12 passover 12 prayer in age Maitreyabandhu 13 the garden 14 visitation 15 homecoming Pauline Stainer 16 long friday Neil Curry 17 kingfisher Christian Wiman 18 the preacher addresses the seminarians Thomas Kinsella 20 too direct for this world Gerard Smyth 21 old news 22 proxies 23 in the supper room Gillian Clarke 24 the carpenter’s boy Eva Bourke 25 piet à 27 sister hildegard at 98 considers her life 28 jesus in mayo Enda McDonagh 29 essay: jesus and poetry Gwyneth Lewis 39 fruit Thomas McCarthy 40 it was not our fault Steve Ely 41 dismas the good thief Fred Marchant 42 beit sahur 43 a day later 44 paraskevi 45 sixty-six Harry Clifton 46 a vision of hokkaido in the rain Wendell Berry 48 from a timbered choir John Burnside 49 officium George Kalogeris 50 iconostasis 51 athanassios Andrew Lansdown 53 sehnsucht 54 measure 54 path 55 man of sorrows John Ennis 56 going back for all i’d on Daniel Tobin 60 mount of olives Sujata Bhatt 62 florence 64 VIRIDITAS : hildegard and jesus John Poch 68 good god 69 mine Gillian Allnutt 70 ignominy 70 to god my god 71 ‘it is snowing’ 72 ‘as it were hunger’ Mark Patrick Hederman 73 essay: bees of the invisible James Harpur 83 the white silhouette Robert Cording 87 advent stanzas Paul Murray 92 o merciful one Michael Longley 93 piet à 93 carol Ian Parks 94 lazarus Ruth Padel 95 from seven words and an earthquake John O’Donnell 102 the storm Dragan Dragojlovi c´ 103 father 104 mother 105 a distant voice Conor McDonough 106 essay: ‘our gaze is submarine’ Paul Perry 111 jesus as a young hungarian deaf woman ... Ned Balbo 112 dead man walking William Wenthe 114 a lesser story Paddy Bushe 116 to jesus on the cross Philip McDonagh 117 the mockery 118 de-constructing silence 119 renunciation 120 horn and ivory 121 the choice of medium Seamus Heaney 122 the latecomers Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 123 teaching daily in the temple Mark Jarman 12 5 the teachable moment Rowan Williams 128 stations of the gospel David Harsent 132 trickster christ Sinéad Morrissey 134 the second coming of christ Armand Garnet Ruffo 136 indian jesus christ, 1974 Andrew Hudgins 137 one easter Penelope Shuttle 139 hour’s ghost 140 hourglasses in the church at jukkasj a¨rvi Patricia McCarthy 142 brides of christ Michael Augustin 144 zu dritt/threesome/tríonóidín Wendy Cope 146 a poem about jesus Murray Bodo 147 white birch Colum McCann 148 essay: name and nature ... Michael Glover 150 the birth 151 this man 152 in the immediate aftermath 153 carelessly careful 154 the decision 155 jesus is lord 156 depending Vincent Woods 157 about his business Tim Liardet 158 self-portrait with shroud and radiation ghost Fiona Sampson 159 the four-limbed cross Nate Klug 162 mary magdalene Dennis O’Driscoll 163 update Notes on Contributors 165.