Poetry Ireland Review Issue 120 James McAuley ecological and cultural fable as

ecological and cultural fable as a young girl and her father on a small island are confronted by the reality and cruelty of global market forces with the privatisation of their traditional water supply

Syed Manzurul (Manzu) Islam was born in 1953 in a small northeastern town in East Pakistan (later Bangladesh)

including Read Me and Laugh (2005) and Space Poems (2006)

the Banipal Prize will be sponsored for the next five years by Omar Saif Ghobash in memory of his late father

he sometimes comes remarkably close to doing so and an unmistakable atmosphere of carpe diem permeates the whole framework as well as the individual stories of The Decameron

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 120 James McAuley ecological and cultural fable asVona Groarke's final issue as editor is packed with new poems from leading contemporary poets, including Simon Armitage, Sinad Morrissey, Colette Bryce, Paul Muldoon, Sean O'Brien and Caitrona O'Reilly. Books reviewed include new work from Derek Mahon, Bernard O'Donoghue, Rita Ann Higgins, Martina Evans, Denise Riley and the 2016 Forward Prize winner Vahni Capildeo. The centrepiece of the issue is an interview with Paul Muldoon in which the Armagh