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Christopher Eccles Poem of the week: Memory
  • Christopher Eccles

A new work by Christopher Eccles

Christopher Eccles recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Poem of the week: Memory
  • Christopher Eccles

A new work by Christopher Eccles

John MacKenna speaking at the unveiling of a plaque for Leonard Cohen in Athy. He worked with Cohen on the script for Between Your Love And Mine. Photograph: Laura Hutton Poem of the week: On the Road to Episkopi
  • John MacKenna

A new work by John MacKenna

Ciaran Carson. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Poem of the week: Words and Music by Fred Johnston
  • Fred Johnston

A new work in memory of Ciaran Carson, 1948-2019

Poet Martina Dalton The Cord and Leaving White Bridge: two poems by Martina Dalton
  • Martina Dalton

December's New Irish Writing winning poems

President Michael D Higgins, Frank Ormsby and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at the announcement of Ormsby as Ireland Professor of Poetry, 2019-2022. Poem of the week: Briars by Frank Ormsby
  • Frank Ormsby

A new work by the Ireland Professor of Poetry

Poet Aidan Mathews. Photograph: Alan Betson Poem of the week: Rhapsody in Pink
  • Aidan Mathews

By Aidan Mathews

Emily Cullen Poem of the week: Envoi in chalk
  • Emily Cullen

A new work by Emily Cullen

Lifta, Israel. Photograph: Samuel Sockol/The Washington Post via Getty Poem of the week: Lifta’s voices by Seamus Cashman
  • Seamus Cashman

Lifta is an empty Palestinian village outside Jerusalem, depopulated since 1948

Denise Garvey November’s New Irish Writing winning poems
  • Denise Garvey

Teabag and Choosy, two new poems by Denise Garvey

David Wheatley. Photograph: The Gallery Press Poem of the week: A Diurnal upon St Lucy’s Day
  • David Wheatley

A new work by David Wheatley

Rebecca O’Connor is author of the novel, He Is Mine and I Have No Other and the poetry collection We’ll Sing Blackbird Poem of the week: The Boat Builder
  • Rebecca O’Connor

Rebecca O’Connor is author of the novel, He Is Mine and I Have No Other and the poetry collection We’ll Sing Blackbird

Mary O’Donnell, novelist and poet Poem of the week: Elegy for a Writer
  • Mary O’Donnell

A new work by Mary O’Donnell

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Photograph: Brian McGovern Poem of the week: An Informant
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

A new work by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Queen’s College, Galway, 1900. Illustration: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Poem of the week: The Builders
  • Tony O’Dwyer

By Tony O’Dwyer

Attracta Fahy Togher, Tuam, Co Galway, September 1987
  • Attracta Fahy

New Irish Writing: October’s winning poem by Attracta Fahy

Jane Clarke, author of Camping at Bearna, whose new collection is When the Tree Falls Poem of the week: Camping at Bearna
  • Jane Clarke

A new work by Jane Clarke

Detail from The Stove in the Studio, c. 1865 by Paul Cézanne. In the collection of the National Gallery, London. Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Paul Cézanne, The Stove in the Studio, c.1865 – a new poem by Ciaran Carson
  • Ciaran Carson

Ron Carey Poem of the week: László Kovács and His Sons Cross the Border
  • Ron Carey

A poem by Ron Carey

Clifton Redmond New Irish Writing: September 2019’s winning poems
  • Clifton Redmond

The Sheep and Unborn by Clifton Redmond

Harry Clifton and Michael O’Loughlin photographed at the launch in the GPO of ‘If Ever You Go’ a map of Dublin in Poetry and song. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Poem of the week: The Names of the Rat
  • Michael O’Loughlin

A new work by Michael O’Loughlin

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Rob Doyle: drugs are a symptom in this book rather than a condition: an example of Doyle’s “longing for an encounter with otherness, a seeking out of astonishment for its own sake”. Photograph: Alan Betson Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansion
Protesters staging a die-in outside the courthouse. Members of PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a rally and die-in outside New Yorks Southern District Federal Court in White Plains. Photograph: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty The new class war and the polarisation of the United States
Mary Mulvihill, author of Ingenious Ireland, photographed with Dick Warner, who officially launched the book at a reception in Dublin in 2002. Photograph: Frank Miller Ingenious Ireland: A cornucopia of a book that should be savoured slowly
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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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Short stories

Andrea Carter studied law at Trinity College Dublin. She is a crime writer and author of the Inishowen Mysteries. Photograph: Fran Veale The Lamb by Andrea Carter: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
Laura-Blaise McDowell Balloon Animals by Laura-Blaise McDowell: on Writing.ie Short Story of the Year shortlist
Amy Gaffney: a graduate of UCD’s Creative Writing MA where she was co-editor in chief of The HCE Review Mother, May I by Amy Gaffney: shortlisted for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

Book reviews

Rob Doyle: drugs are a symptom in this book rather than a condition: an example of Doyle’s “longing for an encounter with otherness, a seeking out of astonishment for its own sake”. Photograph: Alan Betson Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansion
Francine Toon: Her writing draws on her Scottish heritage from folk stories to ceilidh music Pine: Memorable debut with a touch of the supernatural
Mary Mulvihill, author of Ingenious Ireland, photographed with Dick Warner, who officially launched the book at a reception in Dublin in 2002. Photograph: Frank Miller Ingenious Ireland: A cornucopia of a book that should be savoured slowly
A Welsh miner’s wife washing her husband after work, June 1931. Photograph: James Jarche/Getty The Clean Body: A Modern History – Dirty secrets from the past
Steph Cha: her novel is an original story that seeks to tell two very different sides Your House Will Pay: The deadly consequences of race conflict

New poetry

Christopher Eccles Poem of the week: Memory
Christopher Eccles recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Poem of the week: Memory
John MacKenna speaking at the unveiling of a plaque for Leonard Cohen in Athy. He worked with Cohen on the script for Between Your Love And Mine. Photograph: Laura Hutton Poem of the week: On the Road to Episkopi
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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