Poetry Ireland Review Issue 117Issue 117 includes new poems from over twenty five poets from Ireland, the UK, the US and elsewhere, along with three new poems by Michael Longley, one of the UKs foremost contemporary poets. The issue features reviews of more than twenty new poetry collections, including books by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Claudia Rankine, Louise Gluck, Eavan Boland, Dennis ODriscoll and Dermot Healy. Interviews include a feature on photographer, Seamus Murphy,

leap off the page to underline what has changed - and what hasn't

they conjure relationships and exchanges

Born in the impoverished industrial valleys of south Wales

a junior doctor trying to find his feet in the modern NHS

Knights of the Lower Floors (1994)

They seek lost connections from a Montreal childhood

the excerpt from Sara al-Jarwan’s novel Letters to my Lord the Sultan

the changes that developed in jazz in the late 1950s show that new things are possible

Ignacio Cembrero: Talking with Cannibales author Mahi Binebine

He taught for eleven years at Oregon State University and is now Professor of English at Linfield College

Hassan Daoud – Excerpt from the novel Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine

One is always aware that at the edges of many of the poems of security and pleasant memory are the haunting truths of rupture in family relations