—A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams— —As performed by The Florians 15th- 18th June 2022— Plays like A Streetcar Named Desire...

11th December, 11am: PACT Lecture Series: Writing Motherhood: The Value of Your Own Experiences https://www.facebook.com/foylewomensinfor...

Natalie Diaz's second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, is about one thing: body, love, skin and river. It is populated by the remnants...

Carcanet’s Fifty Fifty is a delightful and utterly absorbing read. A collection and selection of letters from each of the Press’ fifty...

his time is precious as a dry spell when there’s silage to be cut Jane Clarke’s second collection When the Tree Falls records her...

The men push me towards the dark but I’m too fast. You’ll never stop my mouth not now I’ve started. I can play rough too. I’ll write my...

It can be considered odd that the Irish language has no word for hand or foot; these appendages, as we see them, are of the linguistic...

Bloodroot is Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s perceptive and meticulous debut collection, an exhumation and interrogation of the exile faced by...

Luck is the Hook. Imtiaz Dharker. Bloodaxe Books £12 ISBN: 978-1-78037-218-1 Pp 128 Luck is the Hook. The title attests to Dharker’s...

Gifts the Mole Gave Me. Wendy Pratt. Valley Press £9.99 ISBN: 9781908853882 pp 76 Gifts the Mole Gave Me is restrained and uninhibited,...

Octopus Medicine is not a traditional poetry collection; it is three verse-stories about the octopus, interpolated by illustrations,...

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On Balance, Sinéad Morrissey. Carcanet Press 72 pp; £8.99 ISBN: 978 1 784103 60 6 On Balance, Sinéad Morrissey’s sixth collection, is a...

Drawing a Diagram, Rosemary Badcoe. Kelsay Books 80pp; £10 ISBN 978-1945752391 Rosemary Badcoe’s debut collection, Drawing a Diagram, is...

“Only to scratch the surface has its own integrity; besides, a pattern is easier to understand than eggshells.” Zosia Kuczyńska’s debut...

When I announced that I was going to use this blog to review 12 female poets this year I was given plenty of support and encouragement...

Jacqueline Saphra’s debut collection, All my Mad Mothers, is one of observation and experience, resistance and discovery, inhibition and...

(This review was oringally published in The Poet’s Republic, Issue 5) Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks, Magi Gibson. ISBN9781910745861:...

The Growing Season, Helen Sedgwick’s second novel, does not set out to radically alter the reader’s world view. Its goal is neither to...

…I started submitting my work for publication. 1. Simultaneous submissions are a mixed bag Simultaneous submissions feel good in the...