‘There’s a deep respect embedded in Gaeltacht culture for troublemakers’ – The Irish Times
Tell us about your new poetry collection, Hymn to All the Restless Girls, “poems of empathy for the…
Attackers Can Use Poetry To Derail AI Safeguards
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at how poetry elides AI safeguards, the new boom…
Shadow – The Irish Times
I keep it barred, that door into the dark, although a weight still pushes at the bolt. Most…
A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time – The Irish Times
In the name of the colours, Emerald, cornflower blue, Ruby, primrose and white, In the name of ringlets…
Australia’s favourite authors share their favourite books of the 21st century
The first 25 years of this century have seen millions of books published worldwide. Of these, many have…
Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door
Leonora Carrington The Stone Door NYRB, 2025 In Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door, the unnamed narrator traverses Mesopotamia…
DEENA ELGENAIDI with Nina St. Pierre
Rail: In popular media, we see the stereotype of returning to the homeland as some sort of panacea—a…
MATTHEW KRESSEL with Amy Goldschlager
Matthew KresselSpace Trucker JessFairwood Press, 2025 Matthew Kressel and I first met at a speculative fiction reading several…
To hell with policy wonks for president, get a few bards – The Irish Times
I initially had no idea if I would have anything to say about President Michael D Higgins’s new…