Poetry Ireland Review Issue 120 Brian Cox

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 120 Brian CoxVona Groarke's final issue as editor is packed with new poems from leading contemporary poets, including Simon Armitage, Sinad Morrissey, Colette Bryce, Paul Muldoon, Sean O'Brien and Caitrona O'Reilly. Books reviewed include new work from Derek Mahon, Bernard O'Donoghue, Rita Ann Higgins, Martina Evans, Denise Riley and the 2016 Forward Prize winner Vahni Capildeo. The centrepiece of the issue is an interview with Paul Muldoon in which the Armagh

Qassim Haddad – Five Poems

Written in electrifying verse

a native of eastern Iowa

written in Irish

Catullus in Scots

I no longer know what we talked about first

bringing to life an immigrant generation's abrasive encounter with the anglicising power of schooling

Bernard Howells

also a former British colony

which - said Marilyn Hacker - "represents much of what I admire in contemporary American poetry

never missing a trick

Several Forms of Speech features a cast of painters and paintings