Alice Quinn, New Yorker Poetry Editor 1988-2008

First Published: The Irish Times, March 27, 2007
In the offices of the New Yorker, high up over the tumult of Times Square, there is a small, windowless room. But, crammed as it is with books, papered as it is with manuscripts, piled as it is with pages fresh from hopeful envelopes, this is a room [...]

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Eavan Boland, Poet

‘It was winter, lunar, wet,” begins the title poem of Eavan Boland’s new collection, Domestic Violence. It seems an instantly recognisable opening to a Boland poem.
It was “winter, lunar, wet”; it was also almost 40 years ago, and a terrible time in Ireland, and a strange, raw time in the life of a young couple [...]

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