A Streetcar Named Desire: A Review
—A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams— —As performed by The Florians 15th- 18th June 2022— Plays like A Streetcar Named Desire...
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Dec 10, 20201 min read
2020: Events
11th December, 11am: PACT Lecture Series: Writing Motherhood: The Value of Your Own Experiences https://www.facebook.com/foylewomensinfor...
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aoifelyall
Oct 29, 20203 min read
Postcolonial Love Poem: A Review
Natalie Diaz's second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, is about one thing: body, love, skin and river. It is populated by the remnants...
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aoifelyall
Feb 7, 20203 min read
Fifty Fifty: A Review
Carcanet’s Fifty Fifty is a delightful and utterly absorbing read. A collection and selection of letters from each of the Press’ fifty...
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aoifelyall
Dec 11, 20193 min read
When the Tree Falls: A Review
his time is precious as a dry spell when there’s silage to be cut Jane Clarke’s second collection When the Tree Falls records her...
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aoifelyall
Oct 22, 20194 min read
Dad, Remember You are Dead: A Review
The men push me towards the dark but I’m too fast. You’ll never stop my mouth not now I’ve started. I can play rough too. I’ll write my...
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aoifelyall
Dec 18, 20182 min read
The Rag Tree Speaks: A Review
It can be considered odd that the Irish language has no word for hand or foot; these appendages, as we see them, are of the linguistic...
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aoifelyall
Dec 18, 20183 min read
Bloodroot: A Review
Bloodroot is Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s perceptive and meticulous debut collection, an exhumation and interrogation of the exile faced by...
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aoifelyall
Aug 1, 20183 min read
Luck is the Hook: A Review
Luck is the Hook. Imtiaz Dharker. Bloodaxe Books £12 ISBN: 978-1-78037-218-1 Pp 128 Luck is the Hook. The title attests to Dharker’s...
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aoifelyall
Jul 4, 20183 min read
Gifts the Mole Gave Me: A Review
Gifts the Mole Gave Me. Wendy Pratt. Valley Press £9.99 ISBN: 9781908853882 pp 76 Gifts the Mole Gave Me is restrained and uninhibited,...
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aoifelyall
Jun 6, 20182 min read
Octopus Medicine: A Review
Octopus Medicine is not a traditional poetry collection; it is three verse-stories about the octopus, interpolated by illustrations,...
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aoifelyall
May 2, 20183 min read
Half the Human Race: A Review
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aoifelyall
Apr 4, 20184 min read
On Balance: A Review
On Balance, Sinéad Morrissey. Carcanet Press 72 pp; £8.99 ISBN: 978 1 784103 60 6 On Balance, Sinéad Morrissey’s sixth collection, is a...
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aoifelyall
Mar 7, 20183 min read
Drawing a Diagram: A Review
Drawing a Diagram, Rosemary Badcoe. Kelsay Books 80pp; £10 ISBN 978-1945752391 Rosemary Badcoe’s debut collection, Drawing a Diagram, is...
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aoifelyall
Feb 6, 20184 min read
Pisanki: A Review
“Only to scratch the surface has its own integrity; besides, a pattern is easier to understand than eggshells.” Zosia Kuczyńska’s debut...
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aoifelyall
Jan 3, 20186 min read
A Cowardly Act
When I announced that I was going to use this blog to review 12 female poets this year I was given plenty of support and encouragement...
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aoifelyall
Jan 3, 20185 min read
All my Mad Mothers: A Review
Jacqueline Saphra’s debut collection, All my Mad Mothers, is one of observation and experience, resistance and discovery, inhibition and...
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aoifelyall
Nov 3, 20173 min read
Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks: A Review
(This review was oringally published in The Poet’s Republic, Issue 5) Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks, Magi Gibson. ISBN9781910745861:...
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aoifelyall
Aug 27, 20172 min read
The Growing Season: A Review
The Growing Season, Helen Sedgwick’s second novel, does not set out to radically alter the reader’s world view. Its goal is neither to...
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aoifelyall
Jun 23, 20172 min read
5 things I’ve learned since…
…I started submitting my work for publication. 1. Simultaneous submissions are a mixed bag Simultaneous submissions feel good in the...
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