Poetry Ireland Review Issue 118 : The Rising Generation Len Green

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 118 : The Rising Generation Len GreenOne hundred years after a poets revolution helped found the Republic, Poetry Ireland Review: The Rising Generation features poems and prose from Irelands new generation of poets. Thirty six poets who have published a first collection or pamphlet in the past five years will be represented by two poems each and by an essay that responds to an original and probing questionnaire about their poetic practice and values. Poetry Ireland Review: The Rising

in its 50th year of independence

of Goode’s steely determination to find his place in a society in a state of flux and play music that was both in and out of step with its shifting demographics

• Tugrul Tanyol

I cannot live beside you any longer

metamorphosis

But marriage between Austrian girls and Englishmen is prohibited by the military government

Incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son

sudden modulations in tone and register

DJ Connell

He has a doctorate and was Reader in English at the University of Gloucestershire

Always driven by a musical engine

a woman buries a pig