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Poetry Ireland Review Issue 148, edited by Sinéad Morrissey, is now available for pre-order purchase. It features new poems from Leontia Flynn, Frank Ormsby, Mai Ishikawa, and Jim McElroy, as well as work from rising poets Judy O’Kane and Adam Rooke, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Cúán de Búrca.
The issue includes an interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin to celebrate and commemorate the publication of the 100th and final issue of Cyphers magazine. Vona Groarke visits Thoor Ballylee, once home to William Butler Yeats and his wife George, documenting their domestic lives at that time and speculating on the part the tower’s physical presence played in the crafting of the memorable poetry W.B. Yeats wrote there.
Also included in this issue are two quick-fire Q&A’s with poets Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha and Louis de Paor. There are 23 titles reviewed in PIR 148, including new work from Tom Paulin, Mark Granier, Moya Cannon, Audrey Molloy, and Éireann Lorsung. At opposite ends of the publishing journey, a landmark publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney is reviewed, as are debut collections from Susanna Galbraith and Sam Furlong, both poets published by Belfast’s newest publishing house, Macha Press.
The cover image, bringing it all back home, is ‘The Sentinel of Henrietta Street’ from Mick O’Dea, a painter and sculptor living and working in Ireland.
Poetry Ireland Review 148 will be available to purchase online and in leading bookshops in Ireland from May 2026.