Anne Bonny

Aifric Mac Aodha
I.
 
Mar go n-imíonn scáil
na deirge istoíche,
is an rud atá dorcha,
go ndéanann léas sa duibhe,
ní dubh atáid, a mbáid,
ach dearg, na hiascairí
mídhleathacha – 
 
 
II.
 
Céard é an rud fírinne?
Stop, maith cailín – 
 
An lá i ndiaidh na stoirme,
an ciúnas, an calm,
 
dhá thaobh an bháid
á cur faoi uisce, gan ghaoth,
 
sin rud a leathfadh anam. 
Page 102, Poetry Ireland Review Issue 119
Issue 119

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 119:

Edited by Vona Groarke

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 119 includes new poems by 48 poets including Frank Ormsby, John Kinsella, Rachel Coventry, Aifric Mac Aodha, Gerald Dawe, Alice Miller and Claire Potter. Also included are translations by Richard Begbie and Kirsten Lodge, an essay on Bishop, Lowell, Heaney and Grennan by David McLoghlin, and reviews of Paul Muldoon, Paul Durcan, Sarah Clancy, Medbh McGuckian, Kate Tempest, George the Poet, and many more. The issue also features photography by Hugh O'Conor, Dominic Turner, Sheila McSweeney, Fergus Bourke and John Minihan.