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Review: A Gap in the Clouds - Japanese poems translated

Poet and translator have done a highly impressive job, working through the undergrowth and the overgrowth of the Japanese Tanka, the short poems that comprise the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, the 100 Poems by 100 poets which were complied around 1235.
Books • 09 Mar 21

Reviewed: Writing Home -The New Irish Poets

50 poets from a long list of different countries around the globe are represented in this compelling anthology of widely disparate voices, edited by poets Pat Boran and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi.
Books • 31 Oct 19

Reviewed: The End of the World by Patrick Deeley

Patrick Deeley strives to reveal the complexity of things while holding on to a sense of wonder in his remarkable seventh collection of poetry.
Poetry Day Ireland • 02 May 19

Barcelona: The Power of Reaching Back

Paddy Kehoe's third book of poetry, Places to Sleep, deals in large part with time spent in the city of Barcelona. ''Barcelona is a chimera of a place in any poetic retrospective worth its salt, it's a city of the imagination,'' he writes.
Culture • 10 Jul 18

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