Join us for readings and the Belfast launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 143, edited by Mícheál McCann. This event will be hosted by Mícheál and will feature readings from contributors local to the bookshop: Stephen Sexton, Emma Must, Brian Kerr, Paul Maddern and Trish Bennett.

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More about this issue of Poetry Ireland:

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 143, edited by Mícheál McCann, is now available to purchase. The issue features new poems from Stephen Sexton, Vona Groarke, Emily Cooper, and Paul Muldoon, as well as work from emerging poets Isabel Dwyer and Rafael Mendes, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Mícheál Ó hUanacháin and Orlaith Ní Icí.

Special additions to the issue include a set of poems from Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Ruefle and the poetry of the late Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, translated into Irish by Colm Ó Ceallacháin. It also features a collaborative essay remembering poet and teacher Gerald Dawe.
In this summer issue, there are a total of 18 books reviewed which speak on internationalism, surrealism, and disability, including collections from Elaine Feeney, Ciarán O’Rourke, and Susan Rich, as well as debut collections from Trudie Gorman and Milena Williamson.

Other prose in this issue includes Ellen Orchard’s essay on how a poem can bear witness along with Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha’s essay discussing writing poetry in the Irish language today.

The artwork in issue 143, which weaves together the personal and the collective, is from photographer and visual artist Eslam Abd El Salam, based in Belfast.

Presented in partnership with Poetry Ireland.

Poetry Ireland is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.