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
Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
“To feel abandoned is to deny / the intimacy of your surroundings.” — David Whyte
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."
Detail by Eamon Grennan
"I began to understand / how a poem can happen: you have your eye on a small / elusive detail, pursuing its music, when a terrible truth / strikes
Writing by William Allingham
"Most books, indeed, are records less / Of fulness than of emptiness." – William Allingham