Irish poetry 2025: Morsels | The Oasis | After Party | Infinity Pool

If this global moment is marked by ‘prevailing untruth’ and widespread dissemination of lies, all four of these collections show an acute awareness of the poet’s duty to exactitude of language: the importance of trying to say exactly what it is that you mean.

Criticism 29th January 2026

Ellen Orchard

Ellen Orchard (she/her) has recently submitted her PhD on modern Irish poetry at Trinity College Dublin, where she was an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar for four years. Her poetry criticism can be found in Poetry Ireland Review, the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. She is currently writing and working in Dublin as a bookseller.