The Go-Away Bird Rupert Read

The Go-Away Bird Rupert ReadIn her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne extends her reputation as a fine poet whose incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of her collections, where individual poems are enriched by their place in the whole and their dialogue with each other. In this collection, the connecting thread is the bird, both in its observed physical otherness and as an image that carries

Grappling with issues of suffering and faith

'Maurice’s own work as a poet is an extension of his work as a life-long lover of and commentator on poetry

and the tyranny of random events

"Her formally adventurous poetry implicates its author in

goddesses will debate the burning environmental issues of our times

true or not

Poetry Ireland Review: The Rising Generation features poems and prose from Ireland’s new generation of poets

these poems are forays of discovery and resistance

In a small corner of one of its many cities

displacement and trauma through clear-voiced

And someone

critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel