Poetry Ireland Review Issue 118: The Rising Generation - Softcover

The Rising Generation issue of Poetry Ireland Review is a comprehensive, insightful and enjoyable overview of what we can expect from Irish poetry in the coming years.

Timed to co-incide with the centenary celebrations of the Easter Rising of 1916, this special issue of Poetry Ireland Review features poems and prose from Ireland s new generation of poetry activists. Over twenty five poets who have published a first collection or pamphlet in the past five years are represented by two poems each and by an essay that responds to an original and probing questionnaire about their poetic practice and values.

Featured poets include Ailbhe Darcy, Tara Bergin, Declan Ryan, Eoghan Walls and Michelle O Sullivan.

Vona Groarke has published six poetry collections with Gallery Press, the latest being X, (2014), shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems have recently appeared in Yale Review, The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Guardian, The Times and Poetry Review. She is a Senior Lecturer teaching poetry in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.