Poetry Ireland Review Issue 119Issue 119 includes new poems from over thirty poets from Ireland, the UK, the US and elsewhere, including Sarah Byrne, Frank Ormsby, Evan Costigan, Jackie Gorman, John Hennessy, Michael Coady, Rachel Coventry, Gerald Dawe, Patrick Cotter and Caitlin Newby. The issue features reviews of more than twenty new poetry collections, including books by Sarah Clancy, Celeste Aug, Eilan N Chuilleanin, Paul Muldoon, Paul Durcan, Fiona Benson, Tom French, Gabriel

and Ghada Samman’s The Square Moon (1998)

and this study of McLean is – like Workout

given its rather showy title

of war and death

Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares

Abdelhamid Ben Haddouga: excerpt from novel

she enjoys recalibrating them

leading to unforeseen and ultimately catastrophic results

In the tradition of fairytales

Listowel Writers' Week and The Cúirt International Festival of Literature

Theatre of Dreams

She currently lives in France