Poetry Review – Disposing of the Clothes: Maria C. McCarthy reviews a short but moving collection by Janet Montefiore
Maria C. McCarthy
Poetry Review: The Shape of a Tulip Bird. Maria C. McCarthy finds these poems of loss by Christopher Hopkins to be compelling yet almost unbearable
Maria C. McCarthy reviews a new short story collection by Anne Walsh Donnelly
Maria C. McCarthy is both entertained and puzzled by the poems in a debut collection by Dawn Watson
Maria C. McCarthy reviews John O’Donoghue’s collection of stories set in Ireland
Maria C. McCarthy explores an engaging and evocative poem sequence by Jane Lovell
THE PALACE OF WISDOM: Maria C McCarthy is intrigued by John O’Donoghue’s historical novel, which draws on a fictional connection between the poets Robert Lowell and John Clare
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