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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Live Streaming!
We’re giving away copies of Conor O’Callaghan’s newest book, Live Streaming, on Goodreads now through Oct. 28! Don’t miss your chance; enter the Goodreads giveaway below.
Continue ReadingMeet our new interns
Each year, we are pleased to have the assistance of student interns. This year’s crop has been diligently at work for almost a month, and already they’ve helped with proofing, e-book formatting, social media marketing, audience research, and good ol’ mass mailing. Together, they comprise our merry band o’ interns, and we’re so grateful for their help. Here’s a little bit more about each of them.
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: Happy National Translation Month
September is National Translation Month, and to celebrate we’re featuring a poem by Máire Mhac an tSaoi, “one of a trinity of poets who revolutionised Irish language poetry in the 1940s and 50s.”
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “The Poet as Black Sheep” by Michael Hartnett
I have seen him dine
in middle-class surroundings,
his manners refined,
as his family around him
talk about nothing,
one of their favourite theses.
“Malingering at the Heart of Things”: Review of Harry Clifton’s Portobello Sonnets
Benjamin Keatinge recently reviewed Portobello Sonnets by Harry Clifton in Breac, opening with “Ten rules for the returning emigrant” outlined by Michael O’Loughlin in a recent Irish Times article: “Rule number 1 reads, ‘Don’t come back,’ while rule number 10 reads, ‘Above all: don’t come back.’ As O’Loughlin reminds us, the treatment of returning Irish emigrants is one…
Continue Reading“Revisiting the Revolution”: Review of David Wheatley’s The President of Planet Earth
In the Summer 2018 issue of Poetry London, Claire Crowther writes: Irish poet, academic and critic, [David] Wheatley is firstly a satirist. A previous collection was titled Mocker and there, as well as here, the narrating persona debunks himself along with the world. … Learned but never dry, always witty and surprising, Wheatley scampers through the arts,…
Continue Reading“Violent as upturned books”: Review of David Wheatley’s The President of Planet Earth
“Wheatley has spent his life on geographic margins,” writes Cal Revely-Calder in his review of The President of Planet Earth in the Times Literary Supplement. “To use a pun I imagine he would like, his poetry is accordingly littoral: built around the hard specifics of several shores. … His poetry is about not only how these settings…
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “The Narrator” by Conor O’Callaghan
during the break in chapter,
gets up to stretch beneath a skylight
and hears seagulls, small girls running.
Poem of the Week: “Blue Poles” by Caitríona O’Reilly
Freedom is a prison for the representative savant
addled on bath-tub gin and with retinas inflamed
from too long staring into the Arizona sun
or into red dirt which acknowledges no master
but the attrition of desert winds and melt-water.
Radio Signals: An interview with Leontia Flynn
Leontia Flynn’s The Radio is out this month, so WFU Press interns gathered to ask the poet more about her newest collection. Written in three sections, The Radio explores the boundaries of home and family life from Flynn’s experience caring for her infant child, to coping with her father’s death, to remembering the influence of…
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