A new work by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
As you read this, the words that mark the page
will detach themselves one by one and fly away.
Read on. The town hall clock has been stopped for years.
You can tell the time by the howling and the cheers
from the children in the playground beside the school,
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
A new work by Stephen de Búrca
Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace
A collective dash for shelter in the city takes on a spiritual, near-religious power
