Capturing the ancients’ dazzling queer energy in image and story
When we consider the many and ongoing erasures of queer history, the baffling silences of the archives, it is deeply moving to see a world, far off from our own, with queerness flowing through its very fabric
New poetry: From Liz Berry’s eagerly awaited second collection to Thomas Kinsella’s final words
The Home Child by Berry; The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday by Emma Must; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Last Poems by Kinsella
January’s best new poetry: Ilhan Sami Çomak; Peter Davidson; Meena Kandasamy; Medbh McGuckian
Reviews: Separated from the Sun; The Book of Desire; Arctic Elegies; The Thankless Paths to Freedom
The Irish Times books of the year: Best new poetry of 2022
There is wit, daring and a sense of otherworldliness in many of this year’s finest collections
Poetry: Ada Limón; Frank McGuinness; Michael Longley; and Selina Nwulu
Reviews: Four collections of exceptional quality, including the US poet laureate, two Irish giants and an arresting, elegiac debut
Poetry reviews: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Luke Morgan, Mina Gorji and a two-for-one Irish anthology
Seán Hewitt on Quiet; Beast; Scale; and Cnámh agus Smior/Bone and Marrow
New poetry collections: five poets reviewed
Róisín Tierney, Nithy Kasa, Jim McElroy, Paul Tran and Denise Riley reviewed
Wong May interview: A transnational and constantly surprising thinker
‘I am only interested in things I cannot do, that is the thrill of poetry,’ says prize-winning poet whose home is in Dublin
New poetry: Evoking sacred spaces and an embattled world
Collections from Kaveh Akbar, Louise C Callaghan, Shaun Hill and Naush Sabah
Joelle Taylor: ‘We all walk around with legions of ghosts within us’
TS Eliot Prize winner on absence, community and the importance of the ‘live poet’
Poetry round-up: Sharp images and blistering words
Annemarie Ní Churreáin has published a second collection called The Poison Glen, plus work from Lila Matsumoto, Paul Muldoon and Tua Forsström
Derek Mahon, The Poems, 1961-2020; and Autumn Skies: Writers on Poems by Derek Mahon
Autumn Skies is an excellent introduction, surveying both classic poems and lesser-known works
Poetry round-up: Stolen moments and brave imaginings
Collections from John Fitzgerald, Amanda Bell, Hannah Lowe and Togara Muzanenhamo
Paul: Intelligent, subtle debut is brilliantly unsettling
Book review: Daisy Lafarge plays with Gothic tropes creating an immersive, maddening read, writes Seán Hewitt