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Orla Fay Poem of the week: The Natural Order
  • Orla Fay

A poem by Orla Fay

‘I start the year with care for what is small’ Poem of the week: The Natural Order
  • Orla Fay

A new poem by Orla Fay

Dolores Stewart Poem of the week: Kaddish
  • Dolores Stewart

By Dolores Stewart

Vincent Woods. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Poem of the Week: Pledge
  • Vincent Woods

A poem by Vincent Woods

Darren Donohue New Irish Writing: June 2019’s winning poems
  • Darren Donohue

Seagulls and Prayer by Darren Donohue

Eamon McGuinness Poem of the week: A Plumber in Aleppo
  • Eamon McGuinness

A new poem by Eamon McGuinness

Frank McGuinness getting the Ulysses medal at UCD. Photograph:Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Poems of the week: ‘Cedar and Elm’ and ‘Moon’
  • Frank McGuinness & Carmen Bugan

New work by Frank McGuiness and Carmen Bugan

Gabrielle Alioth is a Swiss writer living in Ireland. Poem of the week: The Book Keeper’s Daughter
  • Gabrielle Alioth

From The Poet’s Coat by Gabrielle Alioth

Richard Ford. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Poem of the week: To Richard Ford beyond in America
  • Gerald Dawe

A poem by Gerald Dawe

Philip Casey. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh Do Not Ask: A poem in memory of Philip Casey, 4-2-2018
  • Nessa O’Mahony

A new poem by Nessa O’Mahony in tribute to a fellow poet

Nicola Geddes New Irish Writing: May 2019’s winner
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For Mum on Her First Birthday as a Widow, Taking Stock, Sound Sleep and String Theory by Nicola Geddes

The late Liam Ó Muirthile in Dún Laoghaire, 2007. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Two poems in memory of Liam Ó Muirthile
  • Greg Delanty and Alannah Hopkin

Tombstone by Greg Delanty and A Gentleman Caller by Alannah Hopkin

Hydrangeas in bloom, Beauport Abbey, Brittany, France. Poem of the week: Southside Shrub
  • Maeve O’Sullivan

A new work by Maeve O’Sullivan

Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins at Spiddal. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Poem of the week: Scullery
  • Rita Ann Higgins

A new work by Rita Ann Higgins

The steeple of Notre Dame collapses as smoke and flames engulf the cathedral in Paris, France. Photograph: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images Notre-Dame: Two poems celebrating the cathedral
  • Catherine Phil MacCarthy and Mary O'Malley

'A Sonnet for Paris' by Mary O’Malley; 'The Bells of Notre-Dame' by Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Poet Harry Clifton. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Poem of the Week: Ruins
  • Harry Clifton

A work by Harry Clifton

Justin Quinn. Photograph: Tereza Limanova Poem of the week: Island Sonnet
  • Justin Quinn

A new work by Justin Quinn

Miami Showband Brian Maguire, Road Manager, with Des Lee, Sax Player and Ray Miller, Drummer, of the origional Miami Shgowband, at a wreath-laying ceremony organised by Justice for the Forgotten, at Parnell square, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke Poem of the week: Referendum
  • Sean O’Brien

A new poem by Sean O’Brien

Colette Colfer. Photograph: Dave Manser/Vitamin Creative New Irish Writing: March 2019’s winning poems
  • Colette Colfer and Lynn Caldwell

Black Madonna and At Sea by Colette Colfer; Universe Inside and Geography of the Afterlife by Lynn Caldwell

Poet Patrick Cotter is pictured at a ceremony in UCC in 2013. Photograph: Denis Minihane Poem of the week: The Shrew
  • Patrick Cotter

A new work by Patrick Cotter

Thomas Dillon Redshaw: Theft is from his collection Mortal Poems of the week: Sylvia’s Books and Theft
  • Mary Noonan and Thomas Dillon Redshaw

New work by Mary Noonan and Thomas Dillon Redshaw

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David Nicholls: His latest novel, Sweet Sorrow, is more indie-movie than Hollywood blockbuster. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first love
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Illustration: Brendon Deacy Deus Absconditus, a short story by Mary Costello
The agency that arranges for holy shows like me to hide out with a pious family until the baby has been quietly born and adopted by another Catholic family gave me a choice of available hosts: a farming family in Cavan or an Irish-American family in Connecticut Transatlantic Railroad, a short story by Mary M Burke
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Book reviews

Globalisation was always about much more than increased trade. Its origins lie in the liberalisation of finance and the weakening of nation states. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty The Levelling: A banker’s prescient warning of the growing debt crisis
Tim MacGabhann: from Kilkenny to Mexico Call Him Mine: Dial M for murderous prose
David Nicholls: His latest novel, Sweet Sorrow, is more indie-movie than Hollywood blockbuster. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first love
Tiger Woods: one chapter shows talent nurtured early can produce a world champion. Photograph: Phil Coale/AP Photo Range: Forget the ‘10,000 hours’ rule – there’s another way to succeed
Megan Stack lands her punches swiftly and moves on Women’s Work: The rigged, claustrophobic childminder system

New poetry

Orla Fay Poem of the week: The Natural Order
‘I start the year with care for what is small’ Poem of the week: The Natural Order
Dolores Stewart Poem of the week: Kaddish
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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