‘I suppose I’m taking the “joy” that I looked for in poetry last year to be something like little pockets of lightness or beginning. Not a turning away from the world as we know it (nor, as Rukeyser suggests, from the parts of the worlds we don’t know or understand), but a way to be in it. I found this kind of joy in several Irish poetry collections in 2024.’

Lily Ní Dhomhnaill Criticism 29th January 2025

Robert Kiely's debut collection is a brilliant and urgently contemporary appeal to the reader.

Lily Ní Dhomhnaill Criticism 9th September 2020

Stephen Sexton's debut collection is 'a beautiful, vital, generous work of art.'

Lily Ní Dhomhnaill Criticism 29th October 2019