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Derek Mahon addresses guests after receiving The Irish Times DLR Poetry Now award from its poetry editor Gerry Smyth in 2009. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh Dead of Night, a new poem by Derek Mahon
  • Derek Mahon

Taken from his new collection, ‘Rising Late’

The Saturday poem: Mythistorema, by Derek Mahon
  • Derek Mahon

Hennessy New Irish Writing: September 2017 winning poems
  • Karen J McDonnell

‘Spring Cleaning’ and ‘Astray’ by Karen J McDonnell

Hennessy New Irish Writing: September 2017
  • John Donaghy

‘Brook Water’ and ‘Jobs for the Boys, 1950s’ by John Donaghy are this month’s joint winners

The Saturday poem: The Jupiter Epiphany
  • Michael Coady

A new work by Michael Coady

The Saturday poem: Lips
  • Peggy O’Brien

A new work by Peggy O’Brien

The Saturday poem: The Jupiter Epiphany
  • Michael Coady

A new poem by Michael Coady

The Artane Boy’s Band in action at Croke Park. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The Saturday poem: The Artane Band
  • Jessica Traynor

A new work by Jessica Traynor

Patrick Cotter The Saturday Poem: For the Love of Audience Development
  • Patrick Cotter

A new work by Patrick Cotter

The Saturday Poem: Stalled Train, by Pat Boran
  • Pat Boran

The Saturday Poem: To the Castle, by Rory Brennan
  • Rory Brennan

James Conor Patterson Hennessy New Irish Writing: August 2017’s joint winning poems
  • James Patterson

The Disappeared and Sand Mandala by James Conor Patterson

Majella Kelly Hennessy New Irish Writing: August 2017’s winning poems
  • Majella Kelly

Lichenology and Funeral by Majella Kelly

The Saturday Poem: Expensive Sweetheart
  • Tara Bergin

The Saturday Poem – Tube
  • Mark Granier

Matthew Sweeney The Saturday Poem: Lisdoonvarna by Matthew Sweeney
  • Matthew Sweeney

The Saturday Poem: Kingdom of the Dead
  • Greg Delanty

A poem by Greg Delanty

Irish poet and soldier Francis Ledwidge (1891 - 1917). He served as a lance-corporal on the Flanders front with the Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Saturday Poem: Ledwidge
  • Michael Longley

A poem by Michael Longley

Hennessy New Irish Writing: July 2017’s winning poems
  • Chris Connolly

Particulars of Bovine Husbandry; Old-age Sensibility; and The House, by Chris Connolly

Amanda Bell at the Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Wood Quay. Photograph: Alan Betson The Saturday Poem: Points
  • Amanda Bell

A new poem by Amanda Bell

The Summer of Love The Saturday Poem: A New Shirt
  • David Cooke

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Adrian McKinty: “one of Britain’s great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece,” according to Ian Rankin
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Short stories

Black and Tans in Tipperary during the War of Independence, 1921. Photo graph: AE Bell Collection / Hulton Archive/ Getty Images The Boat, a short story by John Connell
“They drive up to the same spot and the same man gets out of the first truck. Instead of getting to work, he walks towards the trailer.” Lipstick, a short story by Meghan Helms
Ethel Rohan The Great Blue Open, a short story by Ethel Rohan

Book reviews

Tom Hanks approaches his collection in an interesting way, using typewriters as a hook to connect each story. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino/Getty Images Tom Hanks’s short story collection is like a box of chocolates
Alice McDermott specialises in genealogies disrupted or arrested because of tragedy The Ninth Hour: An exploration of quietly heroic lives of Catholic women in Brooklyn
Photograph: Jon Bates Seven Days of Us review: Christmas claustrophobia captured
Ernesto Guevara (Che)(1961-1965) in Magnum Manifesto, Thames & Hudson (2017). Photograph: Rene Burri / Magnum Photos Magnum Manifesto review: Idealism behind 70 years of photojournalism
Jane Harris: her new novel charts the perilous journey of two slave brothers from Martinique to Grenada in the 18th century Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery

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New poetry

Derek Mahon addresses guests after receiving The Irish Times DLR Poetry Now award from its poetry editor Gerry Smyth in 2009. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh Dead of Night, a new poem by Derek Mahon
The Saturday poem: Mythistorema, by Derek Mahon
Hennessy New Irish Writing: September 2017 winning poems

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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’
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
 
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