Martina Evans

Reviews: A Change in the Air; Five Fifty Five; Bread and Circus; Let the Dead

A focus on ‘the encounter between vulnerable human bodies and the institutions that have been designed to contain, regulate and control them’

Up Late, passionate and angry as Hamlet, is formally brilliant, an exercise in control

Direct and painfully honest, this book shows what a match Hughes is for fearless, funny George

Plus, a new collaboration between Paul Muldoon and American painter Philip Pearlstein

Spirited and intense, compact as poetry, engaging with the stylish creatures that haunt its pages

A comprehensive source for any reader interested in raising the man from the ghost of his legend

McMahon’s story of getting lost in New York before searching for her roots ripples out as it moves back in time

Collections by Brenda Shaughnessy, Hannah Sullivan, Niall McDevitt and Julie Morrissy

A book rich in characters, wonderfully detailed, often very funny

‘We put more than money in those envelopes: in went the best part of us too; our girlhood. Lightheartedness. Our young days’

It is a reader’s delight to follow the conversations between his poems and translations and there is always something new to discover

There is wit, daring and a sense of otherworldliness in many of this year’s finest collections

‘Autism is a life sentence for those who committed no crime’: piercing reflections from Ryan in his debut collection of poems and prose

From the celebrated to the little-known, fascinating collection shows how French style has extended its influence far beyond France’s borders