13/08/2026
🥁Poetry Ireland Review Issue 149, edited by Colm Tóibín, is now available for pre-order! 🥁
🖊 It features new poems from David Nash, Sinéad Morrissey, Jamie McKendrick, and Molly Twomey, as well as work from rising poets Emma Buckley and Courtney Darby, among many others. The Irish-language selection includes poetry from Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Seosamh Ó Murchú.
📖 In this summer issue, 21 titles are reviewed, including: Declan Ryan’s assessment of two much-anticipated debuts, Graeme Richardson’s Dirt Rich and Dean Browne’s After Party; Ella Frears reviewing ‘the people’s poet’, Rita Ann Higgins, and ‘your favourite poet’s favourite poet’, Martina Evans, and much more.
🖌Michael Coleman provides the artwork for this issue, his work noted, in the words of editor Colm Tóibín, for its ‘dark mystery and rich interior life’.
🔗Subscribers will receive Poetry Ireland Review 149 later this month, or pre-order your copy: https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/issue-149?mc_cid=54e059c248&mc_eid=fd08efa38c
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is proudly funded by The Arts Council of Ireland and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.
