Serious Play
Say Something Back, Denise Riley, Picador, May 2016, pp. 96, £9.99 (Paperback) Commotion of the Birds, John Ashberry, Carcanet,…
Hell is Other Irish People
The Dirty Dust, Mártín Ó’Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley, Yale University Press, 2015, 328pp., £16.99 (hardcover) ‘Unless the clay…
Sacred Hearts and Shadows
The Water Stealer, Maurice Riordan, Faber and Faber, 2015, 64pp, £9.99 (paperback) Gangs of Shadow, Michael O’Neill, Arc Publications,…
A Glinting Scree
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde, Lavinia Greenlaw, Faber and Faber, 2014, 240pp, £16.99 (hardback) The poetic image can…