New poetry: Recounting traumatic personal pasts, Kelly Michels and David McLoghlin speak for traumatised societies
Reviews of Geraldine Mitchell’s Naming Love; Kelly Michels’s American Anthem; David McLoghlin’s Crash Centre; and John Mee’s The Blue in the Blue Marble
The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey: An instructive and exciting volume
A slim volume, packed with knowledge, insight and ‘taste’, is a beacon at a time of worldwide biodiversity loss
New poetry: Ancient Burial Ground; Cargo; Silver; After You Were I Am
Reviews of new work by Will Burns; Polina Cosgrave; Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Camille Ralphs
New poetry: Rapture’s Road; And Then the Hare; Landscape of the Body; All the Good Things You Deserve
New work by Seán Hewitt, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lani O’Hanlon and Elaine Feeney
New poetry by Theo Dorgan, Julie-Ann Rowell, David Nash and Susannah Dickey
Reviews: Once was a Boy; Inside Out; No Man’s Land; Isdal
Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills: Family fables, hidden truths
This engaging and fearless memoir follows the trail of a disappeared cousin
The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan: A fierce and vital collection
Meehan’s haunted poems are talismans held against personal loss and our changing, darkening world
Resting Places: On Wounds, War and the Irish Revolution by Ellen McWilliams
A happy, safe childhood that nevertheless senses the darker history which eventually emerges in all its troubling detail
New poetry: Woman of Winter is as relevant to 21st-century women as it is true to spirit of original
As the sense of grief and loss builds, the assonance and alliteration so vital to the original Irish is released in exhilarating waves
New poetry: Jane Clarke, Maura Dooley, Airea Matthews and Dylan Brennan
Reviews: A Change in the Air; Five Fifty Five; Bread and Circus; Let the Dead
The Family Plot by Clair Wills: A triptych of compelling, if unsettling, essays
A focus on ‘the encounter between vulnerable human bodies and the institutions that have been designed to contain, regulate and control them’
Up Late by Nick Laird: A passionate, angry, brilliant elegy to his father’s death with Covid
Up Late, passionate and angry as Hamlet, is formally brilliant, an exercise in control
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes — ‘an inexplicable joy’
Direct and painfully honest, this book shows what a match Hughes is for fearless, funny George
The best recent poetry: new work from Harry Clifton, Andrew Fitzsimons and Majella Kelly
Plus, a new collaboration between Paul Muldoon and American painter Philip Pearlstein