Poetry‏‏‎ Gro‏‏‎up Booklist

Solas Nua's Poetry Book Group meets on the third Monday of every month.

The first Solas Nua Poetry Book Group started in spring 2020, with the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. The group meets on Zoom, where it remains, for now. Poetry selections have included established poets such as Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, and Eavan Boland. Emerging poets are of particular interest and have included Sean Hewitt, and  Doireann Ní Gríofa. Activities go beyond monthly discussions of a book, the group regularly collaborates with the Solas Nua team, giving valuable input into programming ideas.

There is no membership, anyone is free to join!

Find out about Solas Nua's Fiction Book Group, Nonfiction Book Group, and Classics Book Group.

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2024

  • January 15 - Paula Meehan, As If By Magic: Selected Poems (2021)
  • February 17 - Vona Goarke, Spindrift (2010)
  • March 18 - Nidhi Zak/ Aria Eipe, Auguries of a Minor God (2021)
  • April 15 - Paul Perry, Jamais Vu (2022)
  • May 20 - Leontia Flynn, Taking Liberties (2023)
  • June 17 - Stephen Sexton, Cheryl’s Destinies (2021)
  • July 15 - David Wheatley, Child Ballad (2023)
  • August 19 - Aoife Lyall, The Day Before (2024)
  • September 16 - Nick Laird, Up Late: Poems (2023) - RESCHEDULED TO NOV.
  • October 21 - Matthew Sweeney, My Life as a Painter (2018)
  • November 18 - Nick Laird, Up Late: Poems (2023)
  • December 16 - Eleanor Hooker, Of Ochre and Ash (2021)
  • January 20 - David Nash, No Man's Land (2024)
  • February 17 - Emily Cooper, Glass (2021)

Previous Poetry Group Index

2023

  • January 16 - Victoria Kennefick, Eat or We Both Starve (2021)

  • February 20 - John McAuliffe, Selected Poems (2022)

  • March 20 - Medbh McGuckian, The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems (2015) - Part 1

  • April 17 - Medbh McGuckian, The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems (2015) - Part 2

  • May 15 - Jessica Traynor, Pit Lullabies (2022)

  • June 19 - Máirtín Ó Direáin, Selected Poems/Rogha Dánta (2020)

  • July 17 - Alan Gillis, The Readiness (2020)  

  • August 21 - Jane Clarke, A Change in the Air (2023). Bloodaxe Books.

  • September 18 - Ciaran Carson, Still Life (2020). Wake Forest University Press.

  • October 16 - Moya Cannon, Donegal Tarantella (2019). Carcanet Press.

  • November 20 - Sara Berkeley, Some of the Things I’ve Seen (2023). Wake Forest University Press

  • December 18 - Tara Bergin, Savage Tales (2022), Carcanet Press.

2022

  • January 17 - Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Water Horse (2000)
  • February 21 - Patrick Cotter, Sonic White Poise (2021)
  • March 21 - Elaine Feeney, Rise (2017)
  • April 18 - Geraldine Mitchell, Mute/Unmute (2021)
  • May 16 - Doireann Ní Ghríofa, To Star the Dark (2021)
  • June 20 - Michael Longley, Angel Hill (2017)  - Winner of 2017 PEN Pinter Prize

    Or The Candlelight Master (2020)

    Choose one or both. We will discuss both.
  • July 18 - Harry Clifden, Herod’s Dispensation (2019)
  • August 15 -  Maureen Boyle, The Work of a Winter (2018) 
  • September 19 - Colm Toibin, Vinegar Hill (2022 – release date April 12)
  • October 17 - Pat Boran (Editor), Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds (2021)
  • November 21 - John Kelly, Space (2022)

2021

  • January 18 - Doireann ni Griofa, Lies (2018) – Bilingual Irish/English

  • February 15 - Siobhán Campbell, Heat Signature (2017) – Available from www.bookstore.org

  • March 15 - Derek Mahon, Washing Up (Oct 20, 2020) – Only available from the publisher: www.gallerypress.com/product/mahon-washing-up

  • April 19 - Sinéad Morrissey, Found Architecture (2020) – Available from www.blackwells.co.uk, $16.68 with free shipping to the US

  • May 17 - Nick Laird, Feel Free (2018)

  • June 21 - Conor O'Callaghan, Live Streaming (2018)

  • July 19 - Colette Bryce, Selected Poems (2017)

  • August 16 - Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Collected Poems (2021) - Part 1

  • September 20 - Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Collected Poems (2021) - Part 2

  • October 18 - Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016)

  • November 15 - Derek Mahon, Washing Up (2020) – Only available from the publisher: www.gallerypress.com/product/mahon-washing-up

  • December 20 - Frank Ormsby, The Darkness of Snow (2017)

2020

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