Honoured be the featured artist, both on the cover and throughout in the Spring edition of The Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 145, Edited by Victoria Kennefick and including contributions from an incredible line up of Irish poets and writers.
This edition features new poems from Aoife Lyall, Victoria Chang, Joe Carrick-Varty, Éireann Lorsung, and Padraig Regan as well as work from emerging poets Cora Crampton and Kasandra Ferguson, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Áine Ní Ghlinn, Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, and an essay on the poetry of Deirdre Brennan from Proinsias Ó Drisceoil.
The issue also remembers Michael Longley in a eulogy by Fran Brearton.
In the 2025 spring issue, there are a total of 26 books reviewed which speak on displacement, how to find firm ground in a world of constant change and chaos, and the complex intersections of identity and place. There are reviews of exciting new collections from Charles Lang, Patrick Cotter, and Anne Fitzgerald, as well as the highly original debut collections from Scott McKendry and Jeremy Haworth.
Other prose in this issue includes Caroline Bird’s essay ‘Poets and Clowns’, featuring exactly what you think it does, along with an interview with Eileen Myles reflecting on their journey as a ‘pathetic’ poet in New York, conducted by Hugo Jeudy and Lika Gorskaia.
Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145 will be available to purchase online and in leading bookshops around Ireland from May 2025.
》Video is a repost from @poetryireland
》Cover image: Vertigo, digital illustration, 2020.
