"Poetry Ireland Review 145" Launch
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Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual artists.
Poetry Ireland Review 145, edited by Victoria Kennefick, is to be launched at Notre Dame Dublin's O'Connell House on May 15, 2025, at 6 pm, featuring readings from contributors and refreshments.
About Issue 145
The 2025 Spring Issue features new poems from Aoife Lyall, Victoria Chang, Joe Carrick-Varty, Éireann Lorsung, and Padraig Regan as well as work from emerging poets Cora Crampton and Kasandra Ferguson, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Áine Ní Ghlinn, Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, and an essay on the poetry of Deirdre Brennan from Proinsias Ó Drisceoil.
The issue also remembers Michael Longley in a eulogy by Fran Brearton.
About the Editor
Victoria Kennefick is a writer, poet, editor and teacher. Her debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. It was a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sunday Independent and The White Review, and was also selected as one of The Telegraph's Best Poetry Books to Buy 2021. Her second collection, Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press, 2024) was a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2024, BBC Poetry Extra Book of the Month for March as well as a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The Poetry Society UK. In 2025, she has been appointed as the Arts Council of Ireland/Trinity College Dublin Writer Fellow.
Poetry Ireland acknowledges the support of The Arts Council Ireland and the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.