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A formal tribute to the death of a fellow poet cannot, in the end, restrain its passion

A child’s eye attempts to make sense of a military attack on a school – but fails to find any

Alert to the energies of small words and large dogs, this bounding tale by the republican revolutionary is free from ‘Irish shams’

A weary supermarket queue at the height of the pandemic is wryly observed by a speaker who is just as driven by scrappy appetites

A fresh spin on the sonnet, this subtle contemplation of art, love and language makes the poem into a home

An austere song of praise to a flower that withstands the battering of nature is also an intense response to classical Greek literature