Maybe winding down with a bit of poetry might help? New Weather and Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon, Faber, €14.39 eachPaul Muldoon has had two volumes of poetry recently published, New Weather and Howdie-Skelp. The second volume, just in paperback, borrows its title from the slap a midwife gives a newborn baby to cry. There’s an elegy to the poet Ciaran Carson and a lot more; this is quite a fist of a book. But, with the true heart of a poet, O’Siadhail has faith.

Source: Irish Independent December 10, 2023 00:33 UTC