Awakening our rage: Rosemary Nissen-Wade reviews ‘Witches, Women and Words’ by Beatriz Copello
Unacquainted with Beatriz Copello’s work before (but eager now to catch up) I was drawn to this book because I’m both a poet and a witch
Writers
Maeve McKenna – 6 Poems from ‘Body as a Home for This Darkness’
Maeve McKenna lives in Sligo, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Mslexia, Rattle, Banshee, The Stony Thursday Book and elsewhere. Maeve’s debut pamphlet, A Dedication to Drowning, was published in February 2022. Body as a Home for this Darkness, her second pamphlet, was published in September 2023.
Breakages are part of the story: Rosanna Licari launches ‘Seams of Repair’ by Stephanie Green
Stephanie Green is a versatile and accomplished writer. Not only has she published criticism, screen studies and biography as a university lecturer, she has also written in various genres such as poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and travel essays in literary magazines, anthologies and journals, most recently in Live Encounters, StylusLit, Axon, Meniscus and Queensland Review.
Esther Ottaway 5 Poems
Esther Ottaway has won or been shortlisted for the Tom Collins, MPU International, Montreal, Bridport, Woorilla, Mslexia, Queensland Poetry Festival Ekphrasis and other prizes.
Sightlines at work: Alice Wanderer reviews ‘This Overflowing Light’ by Rin Ishigaki
Opening this book at random, I reread a poem that seems simply to capture an idyllic moment. The poet stands on a steamship, an apple in her hand.
A strong and engaging movement: Andrew Taylor reviews ‘Ghosts of Paradise’ by Stephen Edgar.
Stephen Edgar’s newest book is his thirteenth over thirty eight years, and follows from his much acclaimed The Strangest Place: New and Selected Poems 2020, which won The Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2021.
Drucilla Wall 5 Poems
Drucilla Wall was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, her M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She taught poetry and essay writing, and Native American literature, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis until 2020.
Eamonn Wall 5 Poems
Eamonn Wall is a native of Co. Wexford, Ireland, who has lived in the US since 1982: in Wisconsin, New York City, Nebraska, and for the past twenty years in St. Louis. His books of poetry and prose include My Aunts at Twilight Poker (2023) Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 ; From the Sin-e Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish (University of Wisconsin Press. 2000); Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (Notre Dame, 2011).
Lauren O’Donovan 6 Poems
Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry. Lauren’s work has been shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award, Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, and the Fish Poetry Prize.
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