Ruby Street

Here's something straight outa Eire, the first issue of RunAmok . Poetry by Michael Kindellan, Robert Sheppard, Gerry Loose, Jennifer Matthews, Joe Luna, Andrew Spragg, Giles Goodland, Jill Jones, Simon Howard, Amanda Ackerman and Juha Virtanen. Criticism by Mandy Bloomfield and Aodan McCardle. Edited by James Cummins, Sarah Hayden, Niamh O'Mahony and Rachel Warriner. You can buy it online. I have yet to see my copy but caught a glimpse online as it appears to have had a first outing at the Sound Eye festival among some other terrific publications, as shown on this blog . I had hoped to act on an invitation to this year's Sound Eye but fate had other things in store for me.

The Dublin Poetry Review is a new online publishing venture. The first issue was launched on 24 September, on Ireland Culture Day. The 66 poets in the first issue have contributed work in a range of languages including English, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Malay and Spanish. Poets include: Sagicho Aibara, Rae Armantrout, Jenny Bornholdt, David Brooks, Mairéad Byrne, Julius Chingono, Kwame Dawes, Annie Finch, Forrest Gander, Eamon Grennan, Kimiko Hahn, Michael S. Harper, Jill Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maha Elamin A Mahmoud, Jennifer Maiden, Chris Mansell, Rob Mclennan, Paul Muldoon, Emma Neale, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Niyi Osundare, Robert Pinsky, Chris Price, Muhammad Haji Salleh, Ron Silliman, Ana Vega, C.D.Wright, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lorna Goodison. A full PDF is available on the website for download.