Much

Bill Manhire
I made it out of a mouthful of air.
Foolish balloon that bounced
 
from hand to hand
like a difficult
 
friend at a party. But you
weren’t even
 
there, says the difficult
friend in question.
 
Get out of here!
 
You mouthful of cheese.
You morsel.
Page 72, Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116
Issue 116

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116:
A WB Yeats Special Issue

Edited by Vona Groarke

This essential Yeats anniversary publication is edited by Vona Groarke and includes responses to Yeats’s legacy and readings of his poems from public figures as diverse as Bill Whelan, Neil Jordan, Colm Tóibín, Frank McGuinness, Mary Costello and John Banville, along with new poems responding to Yeats’s work by Irish and international poets such as Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Philip Schultz, Sinéad Morrissey and Harry Clifton. The issue also includes Yeats’s poetry collections, reviewed by leading poets as if just published. Now also available in hardback.  

"superb special edition" John Boland, Irish Independent

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