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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

Micheal O’ Siadhail. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Poem of the week: Digits

Micheal O’Siadhail

A new work by Micheal O’Siadhail

A new shoot emerges from a drain on Dublin's Grafton Street during the Covid-19 lockdown. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Poem of the week: The Siege of Corona

Anne Haverty

A new work by Anne Haverty

Mural of George Floyd, by artist Emmalene Blake, in Kingswood, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan

Eight Minutes and Forty-Six Seconds: a poem in memory of George Floyd

Rachael Hegarty

Poem of the week: A new work by Rachael Hegarty

Patrick Kehoe

Poems of the week: Moraíto Chico and Bolt the Door

Patrick Kehoe and Kerry Hardie

New works by Patrick Kehoe and Kerry Hardie

Enda Coyle-Greene

Poem of the week: One

Enda Coyle-Greene

A new work by Enda Coyle-Greene

Poet John McAuliffe

Poem of the week: Cold War

John McAuliffe

Today’s poems is from John McAuliffe’s new collection, The Kabul Olympics

Paddy Bushe

Poem of the week: The Etymology of Isolation

Paddy Bushe

A new work by Paddy Bushe

Poet Chris Agee. Photograph: Moya Nolan

Poem of the week: A Mighty Presence

Chris Agee

A new work by Chris Agee

Poem of the week: Eros

Padraig Rooney

A new work by Padraig Rooney

Kevin Graham

New Irish Writing: April’s winning poems

Kevin Graham

How to Use This Poem, and Homage to Wendell Berry, both by Kevin Graham

Poet Ger Reidy and artist Deirdre Walsh in Belmullet, Co Mayo for the Force 11 Writers Weekend. File Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Poem of the week: Here We Go Again

Ger Reidy

A new work by Ger Reidy

Gerard Smyth is poetry editor of The Irish Times. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Isolation, a poem by Gerard Smyth

Gerard Smyth

Becalmed Grafton Street in Dublin’s city centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Poem of the week: When by John O’Donnell

John O’Donnell

‘A kind of rapture, this longed-for laying on of hands, high cries as we nuzzle, leaning in to kiss’

Julie Morrissy

Poem of the week: Rental

Julie Morrissy

By Julie Morrissy

‘Lording their idleness, chalking the clay’.

Poem of the week: The Geese

Oana Sanziana Marian

A new work by Oana Sanziana Marian

French poet Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867). Photograph: Etienne Carjat/Getty

Poem of the week: At the Grave of Baudelaire

Paula Bohince

A new work by Paula Bohince

Steve Denehan

New Irish Writing: March 2020’s winning poem

Steve Denehan

A Poem from My Father to My Mother by Steve Denehan

Maurice Riordan. Photograph: Derek Adams

Poem of the week: Yeomen

Maurice Riordan

A new work by Maurice Riordan

Playwright Tom MacIntyre. Photograph: Eric Luke

Poem of the week: Advice to a young poet

Noel Monahan

A poem by Noel Monahan in memory of Tom MacIntyre

Mark Roper

Poem of the week: Where Does It Hurt

Mark Roper

A new work by Mark Roper

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