Poetry Ireland Review Issue 121Eavan Boland's first issue as editor of Poetry Ireland Review aims to encourage a conversation about poetry which is "noisy and fractious certainly but a conversation nevertheless that can be thrilling in its reach and commitment." There are new poems from Thomas McCarthy, Jean Bleakney, Wendy Holborow, Paul Perry, Aifric Mac Aodha, and many others, while the issue also includes work from Brigit Pegeen Kelly, with an accompanying essay on the poet by

Giuseppi Ungaretti

became a teacher there

Claire Trévien was born in Brittany

and the hungry mouth of a newborn baby

Completed with the enthusiastic support and participation of the late Laureate

in February 2012

only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris

one of the Arab world's finest women novelists

'If someone knocks on your door

Siriol Troup

was published by Damocle Edizioni

When We Were Almost Like Men explores the world of the modern courier industry