Contents Poetry Ireland Review 121 Eavan Boland 5 editorial Wendy Holborow 7 i see her Susannah Dickey 8 xenomelia Kenneth Fields 10 caducity Liam Carson 11 review: lo kwa mei-en, anna journey Thomas McCarthy 16 last service in the orthodox synagogue Laura Webb 17 subjectivity John Kinsella 18 the gale lifts the roof off the 90,000 litre tank Kevin Cantwell 19 an essay on typography Eavan Boland 20 essay: brigit pegeen kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly 26 song Diarmuid Johnson 28 ní fuath linn 29 nead dreoilín 30 ní féidir coill a chur Michael Hofmann 31 review: paul muldoon Leontia Flynn 34 28 Jean O’Brien 35 the most expensive hen house in england Matthew Sweeney 37 tin mining Katie Donovan 38 review: jamie mckendrick, vona groarke Eavan Boland 42 featured poet: solmaz sharif Solmaz Sharif 44 look 46 master film Colm Tóibín 47 essay: paula meehan Andrew Jamison 52 anti-acknowledgements Anne Maher 54 down memory lane A.M. Cousins 55 bedsit Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 56 review: john mcdonald, gabriel rosenstock, ailbhe ní ghearbhuigh Paul Perry 62 the end of summer John W Sexton 65 one cognizance Colette Colfer 66 minotaur Michael O’Loughlin 67 interview: yves bonnefoy Jean Bleakney 75 stalwart Chelsea Whitton 76 grasshoppers Gerard Smyth 78 the horse came back but not the rider Theo Dorgan 79 essay: john montague: the influence of anxiety 85 going home Aifric Mac Aodha 86 gó 87 lied Richard W Halperin 94 by a fireside, december Thomas Dillon Redshaw 95 review: thomas mccarthy, mary o’malley Eithne Hand 99 hard chaw Iggy McGovern 100 hypermetropia Emily Holt 101 our red evening Dáibhidh Thomáis Albanach 102 review: séamus barra ó súilleabháin, simon ó faoláin, diarmuid johnson Jane Clarke 106 he stood at the top of the stairs Tom French 107 bank Stephen Sexton 108 the curfew Ron Houchin 110 roy orbison’s glasses Joseph Woods 111 let us fly away to the famed cities of asia Martin Malone 115 review: simon armitage, peter sirr Shirley Gorby 119 visiting the seamstress Conor Cleary 120 webbing Majella Kelly 121 michaelmas daisies Notes on Contributors 122 .