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Mary O’Donnell. Poem of the Week: Hanging House in a Canal, by Mary O’Donnell
  • Mary O’Donnell

Grace Wilentz. Poem of the week: Wild Horses, by Grace Wilentz
  • Grace Wilentz

John F Deane The Green Plover: A new poem by John F Deane
  • John F Deane

Photograph: Getty New poem: Some Things I Am Finding on Zoom®
  • Paula Cunningham

By Paula Cunningham

Amanda Bell. Photograph: Alan Betson Poem of the week: Aubade, by Amanda Bell
  • Amanda Bell

Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Photograph: Brian McGovern Intimations, a new poem by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

A spectator emerges from the Gorse during the Irish Amateur Open Championship st Portmarnock Golf Club. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Poetry: The Flourishing Shrub
  • Paul Murray

A new work by Paul Murray

Leeanne Quinn New poem: The Good Going Up to Heaven and the Wicked Going Down to Hell
  • Leeanne Quinn

A new poem by Leeanne Quinn

Artists Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude in front of a model of their artwork Wrapped Reichstag. Photograph: Raquel Manzanares/EPA Parallel: A new poem by Thomas McCarthy
  • Thomas McCarthy

Aifric Mac Aodha Athoscailt, a new poem by Aifric Mac Aodha
  • Aifric Mac Aodha

With a translation by David Wheatley

Jamal Khashoggi. Photograph: Mohamed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images Making a Fist, a poem in memory of Jamal Khashoggi 1958-2018
  • Geraldine Mitchell

A new work by Geraldine Mitchell

John Hume. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien John Hume, Public Representative: A poem by Philip McDonagh
  • Philip McDonagh

Joseph Woods Derrynaflan, a poem by Joseph Woods
  • Joseph Woods

Joseph Woods’s most recent collection is Monsoon Days

Julie O’Callaghan. Photograph: Kim Haughton Sitting in a Cloud, a poem by Julie O’Callaghan
  • Julie O’Callaghan

From her new collection, Magnum Mysterium

Annemarie Ní Churreáin Poem of the week: from The Foundling Crib
  • Annemarie Ni Churreain

A new work by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Michael Longley at his home in Belfast. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons To Otomo Yakamochi, a new poem by Michael Longley
  • Michael Longley

Thomas Kinsella. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Street Game for the Over 15s, a new poem by Thomas Kinsella
  • Thomas Kinsella

Joan McBreen has published five collections of poetry. Poem of the week: Constancy
  • Joan McBreen

A new work by Joan McBreen

Kevin Cantwell’s recent book is One of Those Russian Novels. Poem of the week: A Jar of Figs
  • Kevin Cantwell

A new poem by Kevin Cantwell

Tom French Poem of the week: A Pietà
  • Tom French

A new work by Tom French

The statue of James Joyce off O’Connell Street. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Poem of the week: Our Statues Go Unwatched by Katie Martin
  • Katie Martin

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Tautly edited, the sheer stylistic euphoria of Davud Keenan’s form seems to breathe itself to life. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Xstabeth: David Keenan’s rock ’n’ roll fairy story and Muse myth is a triumph
Michael Douglas as 1980s Wall Street predator Gordon Gekko. ‘The theme is evident from the title. Gekko is wrong. Greed is bad and it is dead.’ Greed Is Dead: Gekko got it wrong
Yusef Salaam, one of the five boys once known as the Central Park Five. Photograph: Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images YA fiction: Growing up black in the US

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Short stories

Emma Flynn: is currently writing her first novel and a collection of short stories Rent and Bills by Emma Flynn: Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition winner
Mel O’Doherty lives in Douglas, Cork, and teaches English and history. His debut novel, Fallen, will be published by Bluemoose Books next June Waiting, a new short story by Mel O’Doherty
Tony Wright: the former lead singer of And So I Watch You From Afar and author of Chapter & Verse(ChorusVerse). Photograph: Fionn Crossan The Cage, a short story by Tony Wright

Book reviews

Tautly edited, the sheer stylistic euphoria of Davud Keenan’s form seems to breathe itself to life. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Xstabeth: David Keenan’s rock ’n’ roll fairy story and Muse myth is a triumph
Michael Douglas as 1980s Wall Street predator Gordon Gekko. ‘The theme is evident from the title. Gekko is wrong. Greed is bad and it is dead.’ Greed Is Dead: Gekko got it wrong
“Blue whales are creatures so large that, when they exhale, rainbows can form,” writes Rebecca Giggs. Fathoms: The World in the Whale goes deep
1920: A casualty is carried away during the Irish War of Independence when Sean Treacy of the Irish Volunteers’ South Tipperary Brigade shot and killed two RIC constables at Talbot Street in Dublin. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images The Dead of the Irish Revolution: An absorbing book that counts the cost of war
Sean O’Brien on Lions duty in 2017 in Wellington, New Zealand. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images Fuel by Seán O’Brien: engagingly frank but could have shed a few pages

New poetry

Mary O’Donnell. Poem of the Week: Hanging House in a Canal, by Mary O’Donnell
Grace Wilentz. Poem of the week: Wild Horses, by Grace Wilentz
John F Deane The Green Plover: A new poem by John F Deane
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
 
Roddy Doyle’s Fighting Words Celebrating 10 years of young Irish writing
 

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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’
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