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Amanda Bell at the Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Wood Quay. Photograph: Alan Betson The Saturday Poem: Points
  • Amanda Bell

A new poem by Amanda Bell

The Summer of Love The Saturday Poem: A New Shirt
  • David Cooke

Top of the Pops. Photograph: Phil Dent/Redferns The Saturday Poem: Top of the Pops
  • Ciaran Berry

A new poem by Ciaran Berry

Climate change: President Trump signs an executive order intended to roll back most of President Obama’s climate-change legacy. Photograph: Stephen Crowley/New York Times The Saturday Poem: On the Fifth Day
  • Jane Hirshfield

By Jane Hirshfield, for the March for Science, on Earth Day 2017

Eoin Devereux The Bodhi Tree: a poem by Eoin Devereux
  • Eoin Devereux

Grenfell Tower seen from a neighbouring tower block in Kensington, London. A police spokesman said some of the remains may never be identified. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images Poem of the week: Naming of the Bones
  • John F Deane

A poem by John F Deane inspired by the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London

Hennesy New Irish Writing winning poems: June 2017
  • Kevin Graham

‘Here’ and ‘The Scan’, two poems by Kevin Graham

The Hook and the Needle
  • Sinead Morrissey

A new poem by Sinéad Morrissey

Sgt Pepper at 50: John Lennon and Ringo Starr, from the exhibition Unseen Beatles, featuring photographs by Frank Herrmann. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Poem of the Week: The Hook and the Needle
  • Sinéad Morrissey

As part of Liverpool Presents Sgt Pepper at 50, a new Beatles poem by Sinéad Morrissey

The Saturday Poem: Elegy for the Arctic
  • Leanne O'Sullivan

A new poem by Leanne O’Sullivan

He’s lost control again Joy Division at The Hacienda: a new poem by Andrew Jamison
  • Andrew Jamison

Molly Twomey Hennessy New Irish Writing, May 2017: Eat Yourself Beautiful
  • Molly Twomey

A new poem by Molly Twomey

Poet Berni Dwan Hennessy New Irish Writing, May 2017: Poetry
  • Berni Dwan

'I could have been a contender' by Berni Dwan

Billy Fenton Hennessy New Irish Writing, May 2017: Cracked Voices
  • Billy Fenton

A new poem by Billy Fenton

Hennessy New Irish Writing, May 2017: Cracked Voices
  • Billy Fenton

Billy Fenton is this month’s winner

Lani O’Hanlon Can Speak: A new poem by Lani O’Hanlon
  • Lani O’Hanlon

Francis Ledwidge Poem: ‘A letter from Francis Ledwidge’ by Matthew Geden
  • Matthew Geden

Ledwidge, a Meath poet, was killed in action during the first World War

The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire Laundry
  • Mary Coll

A new poem by Mary Coll

Poem: Call of the corncrake
  • Siobhan Campbell

A poem by Siobhán Campbell

Ron Carey’s poetry collection Distance was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2016 A Song for Older Life, a poem by Ron Carey
  • Ron Carey

This poem was commissioned for the Bealtaine Festival, Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age

Sarah O’Connor: winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writing for April Hennessy New Irish Writing: April 2017’s winning poems
  • Sarah O'Connor

Follow Your Leader and Small Talk by Sarah O’Connor

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Shane Connaughton leans against the wall outside the Garda Barracks in Redhills.
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Book reviews

Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: The human need for connection is this heart-rending novel’s central theme. Photograph: Philippa Gedge Eleanor Oliphant is a most unusual and thought-provoking heroine
Daily papers: society needs good journalism, and the public clearly wants it too. Photograph: Eric Luke Last Words? review: Why people still want good journalism
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva: The Zoo is a satire on the slipping away of Stalin’s all-encompassing power. Photograph: AP Photo/Courtesy Icarus Films The Zoo review: John Boyne on a jovial guide through Stalinism’s dying days
Béla Guttmann: the flawed, uniquely gifted Benfica coach – shown with journalists in London in 1962 – negotiated a path through the horrors of Nazism. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton/Getty The Greatest Comeback review: a sombre salute to Béla Guttmann
F Scott Fitzgerald dances with his wife, Zelda, and daughter, Frances. Photograph: Hulton/Getty Paradise Lost: A Life of F Scott Fitzgerald review – Behind the poster boy

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New poetry

Amanda Bell at the Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Wood Quay. Photograph: Alan Betson The Saturday Poem: Points
The Summer of Love The Saturday Poem: A New Shirt
Top of the Pops. Photograph: Phil Dent/Redferns The Saturday Poem: Top of the Pops

Brought to Book

Thomas Enger: I would love to pick the brain of the Bible’s author about how to get away with all those completely unrealistic scenes and still sell millions ‘Writing is a good way to process what’s going on in your own life’
Kate Hamer: I find Edna O’Brien an absolutely extraordinary writer – her work is so lucid and accomplished it’s almost like she’s recasting a vision. Photograph: Mei Williams Kate Hamer Q&A: ‘Write the story that is burning inside you’
Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture
 
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