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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

Patrick Deeley. Photograph: Judy Carroll Deeley/Dedalus Press The Saturday poem: The Wedge
  • Patrick Deeley

A new work by Patrick Deeley

Paddy Bushe The Saturday poem: Sky Woman
  • Paddy Bushe

A new poem by Paddy Bushe

Matt Hohner: chosen by poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin as the winner of the Doolin poetry competition, part of Doolin Writers’ Weekend Poem about Tree of Life synagogue massacre wins Doolin poetry prize
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Poem about masculine vulnerability wins Doolin poetry video competition

Mark Ward Hennessy New Irish Writing: February 2019’s winning poems

Mobile Library by Mark Ward; Tangerine in December by Derek Coyle; Fists by Steve Denehan

Eamon Grennan. Photograph: Ben Fink Shapiro Poem of the week: Anniversary Mother
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A new poem by Eamon Grennan

Vona Groarke. Photograph: Ed Swinden/The Gallery Press Poem of the week: Against Loneliness
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A new work by Vona Groarke

Irish Free State troops guarding a road on the Fermanagh-Cavan border in 1922. Photograph: Getty Images ‘Top-hatted Rees-Mogg and Bullingdon Club Johnson, calling Ireland to heel’
  • Timothy O'Grady

A reflection on borders in verse by Tim O'Grady

Mark Granier Poem of the week: 20/1/18
  • Mark Granier

A new poem by Mark Granier

Pearse Hutchinson Poem of the week: Portobello Bridge Revisited
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A new poem by Enda Wyley in memory of Pearse Hutchinson, 1927-2012

Parts of an Airfix model aircraft kit of a Hawker Hunter bomber. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images/File Poem of the week: Airfixit
  • Iggy McGovern

A new poem by Iggy McGovern

Amy Gaffney Hennessy New Irish Writing: January 2019’s winning poems
  • Amy Gaffney and Majella Kelly

Tonsillitis by Amy Gaffney and Blue by Majella Kelly

Bernard O'Donoghue Poem of the week: Jim Cronin Recalls his Parting from Denis Hickey
  • Bernard O’Donoghue

Celia de Fréine is a poet and playwright who writes in Irish and English Poem of the week: Good Housekeeping
  • Celia de Fréine

A new poem by Celia de Fréine

David Butler The Saturday poem: The Empty Sound
  • David Butler

A new poem by David Butler

Siobhán Mac Mahon Hennessy New Irish Writing: December 2018’s winning poems
  • Siobhan Mac Mahon & DC Fitzsimons

New work by Siobhán Mac Mahon and DC Fitzsimons

The Saturday poem: From ‘In the Ear of the Owl’
  • Hayden Murphy

A new poem by Hayden Murphy

Poet Aideen Henry. Poem of the week: Hibernating
  • Martin Doyle

A new poem by Aideen Henry

The Dodder. Photograph Nick Bradshaw Poem of the week: Ophelia’s Day Out
  • Patrick Chapman

A new poem by Patrick Chapman

Waves hit the cliffs in front of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, in southern Athens. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images Poem of the week: A Balance by Larry Stapleton
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Book reviews

Siri Hustvedt: her novel may be baggy and rambling but it’s under the control of a consummate intelligence. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Memories of the Future review: a playful memoir of an imagination
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