Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon
“The sun rises in spite of everything / and the far cities are beautiful and bright.” — Derek Mahon
The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama
“So you might as well live / and you might as well love.” — Pádraig Ó Tuama
Gentlest of Bleeding Things by Ali Choudhary
“I had spent most of my life / thinking each entrance, each slight / interstice in the walls was an invitation for darkness.” — Ali Choudhary
The One Thing by Pádraig Ó Tuama
“And he must have found a little window, / opened it – and shouted through it – / that saving sound that saved me.” — Pádraig Ó Tuama
Snow by Louis MacNeice
“There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.” — Louis MacNeice
Against Love Poetry: Poems by Eavan Boland
Against Love Poetry: Poems by Eavan Boland A collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are
Once by Eavan Boland
“I do not want us to be immortal or unlucky. / To listen for our own death in the distance. / Take my hand. Stand by the window.” – Eavan Boland
Detail by Eamon Grennan
“you have your eye on a small / elusive detail, pursuing its music, when a terrible truth / strikes and your heart cries out, being carried off.” – Eamon Grennan
Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats
“O love is the crooked thing, / There is nobody wise enough” – William Butler Yeats