SOURCE: IRISH TIMES
Emilie Pine’s debut novel draws on her experience of infertility and loss. She talks to Catherine Conroy in the Magazine in The Irish Times tomorrow. In Weekend Review, you can read an extract from Pandemonium: Power, Politics and Ireland’s Pandemic by Jack Horgan-Jones and Hugh O’Connell; and retired garda Willie McGee tells Conor Gallagher about his book detailing investigations of major scams. Reviews are Catriona Crowe on Bessborough by Deirdre Finnerty; Daniel Geary on The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle; Declan Hughes on the best new crime fiction; Niall McGarrigle on Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe; Mary O’Donnell on Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso; Brian Maye on Agoraphobia by Graham Caveney; Helen Cullen on The Candy House by Jennifer Egan; Felix Larkin on The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S Olmsted; Sara Keating on children’s books; Bernard O’Donoghue on John McAuliffe’s Selected Poems; and Sarah Gilmartin on Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel.
Diving for Pearls by Jamie O’Connell is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer. You can buy it for just €4.99, a saving of €6, with your newspaper.
Aniqah Choudhri’s poem The Unloving Ground was announced as the winner of The Moth Poetry Prize last night at a special Poetry Ireland event online, at which all four shortlisted poets’ work was celebrated.
Choudhri, a British Muslim poet from Manchester who works as a freelance journalist, has been published in the Hippocrates Anthology for Poetry and Medicine, the Bristol Short Story Anthology and the Lightship Anthology, as well as The Independent, The Tribune magazine and i-D.
The prize, which is solely sponsored by the publishers of The Moth, is one of the world’s most valuable prizes for a single unpublished poem, with over €10,000 in prize money.
Each year a single poet is asked to judge the prize blind, and this year the judge was Warsan Shire, “a poet of the highest order, with a compassionate heart, and a limitless mind”, according to Benjamin Zephaniah.
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