Poetry Ireland Review Issue 128Poetry Ireland Review 128, edited by Eavan Boland, is full of strong poems and strong opinions. The issue features a total of 61 poets, including new work from Moya Cannon, Ciaran Carson, Dairena N Chinnide, Nidhi Zak Aria Eipe, Andrew Rahal, Rachael Hegarty, Eoin Rogers, Liz Quirke, and Featured Poet Caitlin Newby. There's an article on Seamus Heaney, excerpted from Minor Monuments, Ian Maleney's masterly book of essays; and, in the first in a series

But we want the next issue to prove a truth we hold to be self-evident: that poetry is necessary for a humane life

anthropological and sassy

Amjad Nasser

Unfortunately he is peculiarly ill-equipped to survive the demands of the ever changing world of hospital medicine

Courttia Newland

fascinated by the declarations of love

Faraj Bayrakdar

He was to have been a gift

Would Emily Dickinson have watched vampire series Twilight

These are just some of the questions posed in Stress Fractures

in a novel designed to make the reader think

and the Cholmondeley Award