Striking a Match in a Storm by Andrew McNeillie Julia Bird For more than forty years

For more than forty years Matthew Sweeney sought to capture

Magnum Mysterium is Irish American poet Julie O’Callaghan’s first collection since Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (2008)

the cannibal clan of the Denfiends

religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other’ – Nilufer Bharucha

She believes that poetry records the experience of one’s time and insists that it is ‘not a series of events

Striking a Match in a Storm by Andrew McNeillie Julia Bird For more than forty yearsPublished 31st March 2022. The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward Prize shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000). McNeillies poems possess the same precision and ear for other voices which have made him a noted nature writer and an influential editor of the handsomely designed eco literature magazine