Poetry Ireland Review Issue 121 Michael D. Higgins Reza Baraheni and the late

Reza Baraheni and the late Miroslav Jancic are now well known internationally for their writing in English

and the University of Ulster

Feature on Mohammed Bennis

a dealing in the illegal or the illicit

The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 121 Michael D. Higgins Reza Baraheni and the lateEavan Boland's first issue as editor of Poetry Ireland Review aims to encourage a conversation about poetry which is "noisy and fractious certainly but a conversation nevertheless that can be thrilling in its reach and commitment." There are new poems from Thomas McCarthy, Jean Bleakney, Wendy Holborow, Paul Perry, Aifric Mac Aodha, and many others, while the issue also includes work from Brigit Pegeen Kelly, with an accompanying essay on the poet by