Best Irish Poetry in English

For past number of years, Southword editions has produced a Best of Irish Poetry volume. The anthologies provide a useful guide to Irish poetry published in a given year. This year’s offering, spanning the period July 2007 to July 2008, consists of the 50 best Irish poems written in English (previous volumes had also included poems in Irish). In his introduction, editor Matthew Sweeney recounts the long afternoons spent in the Reference Section of Cork City Library reading through poetry maga..