Leaf, Sunlight, Asphalt Lucy Tunstall

Leaf, Sunlight, Asphalt Lucy TunstallIchigo ichie ("one time, one meeting"), a motto associated with the Japanese tea ceremony, enjoins the host and guests in the tea hut to treat each encounter as unprecedented and unrepeatable. Infused with that conviction, the poems of Ben Howard's sixth collection bring an exact and ceremonial attention to the things of this world. Whether the object of attention be a red twig dogwood, Dublin in July, or the "lucid silence" envisioned by Thomas

She was writer-in-residence for Kildare County Council from 1994 to 1996

Julian Stannard taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa for many years

He won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 1998

Standing alone

which was short-listed this year for the inaugural Arabic “Booker” prize

what is left to us

Fintan O'Toole

1991) and The New Pornography (Salmon Poetry

Polina Barskova

As MacNeice said

Michael Hamburger Afterthoughts on the Mug’s Game

technically brilliant and eloquent with passionate anger