New poetry: Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Audrey Molloy, Cian Ferriter and Sarah Howe
Martina Evans on Hymn to All the Restless Girls, Fallen, Brink and Foretokens
Best poetry of 2025: Our critics share their top picks
Mícheál McCann, Declan Ryan and Martina Evans on their favourite poetry from this year
New poetry: Jessica Traynor, Molly Twomey, Alan Gillis, Dean Browne
Martina Evans on New Arcana; Chic to be Sad; Over Here; Afterparty
From dark and witty to feather-light perfection: New poetry by Kimberly Campanello, Patrick Cotter, Karen Solie and Bernard O’Donoghue
An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello; Quality Control at the Miracle Factory by Patrick Cotter; Wellwater by Karen Solie; and The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue
New poetry: works by Ange Mlinko, Traveller poets, Jo Burns and Emily Cooper, and Jake Hawkey
Foxglovewise; Kin: An anthology of Poetry, story and art by Women from Romani, Traveller and Nomadic Communities; The Conversation; and But/Through
Irish Nurses in the NHS: An Oral History by Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi - Wonderful telling of a story that needed to be told
The warmth of the women’s voices is palpable in a thoughtful study that also addresses the darker side of the migrant experience
New poetry: What Remains the Same; An Arbitrary Light Bulb; Harmony Unfinished; Adam
Martina Evans reviews works by Alvy Carragher, Ian Duhig, Grace Wilentz and the late Gboyega Odunbanjo
New poetry: Recounting traumatic personal pasts, Kelly Michels and David McLoghlin speak for traumatised societies
Reviews of Geraldine Mitchell’s Naming Love; Kelly Michels’s American Anthem; David McLoghlin’s Crash Centre; and John Mee’s The Blue in the Blue Marble
The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey: An instructive and exciting volume
A slim volume, packed with knowledge, insight and ‘taste’, is a beacon at a time of worldwide biodiversity loss
New poetry: Ancient Burial Ground; Cargo; Silver; After You Were I Am
Reviews of new work by Will Burns; Polina Cosgrave; Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Camille Ralphs
New poetry: Rapture’s Road; And Then the Hare; Landscape of the Body; All the Good Things You Deserve
New work by Seán Hewitt, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lani O’Hanlon and Elaine Feeney
New poetry by Theo Dorgan, Julie-Ann Rowell, David Nash and Susannah Dickey
Reviews: Once was a Boy; Inside Out; No Man’s Land; Isdal
Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills: Family fables, hidden truths
This engaging and fearless memoir follows the trail of a disappeared cousin
The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan: A fierce and vital collection
Meehan’s haunted poems are talismans held against personal loss and our changing, darkening world
