Among Ireland’s best contemporary poets, Paul Muldoon pours forth a river of words resembling (to this Midwestern reviewer, at least) not so much Joyce’s Liffey as Twain’s Mississippi. His verse feels ...

When poet Derrick Brown moved from the city of Austin to more rural Elgin, Texas, he was searching for “a peaceful plot of land to hunker down.” The pastoral surroundings, as well as the cycle of life ...

An aspect of a horse’s training provides some unsettling analogies with the powers that humans learn to accept Miriam Gamble’s new collection, Pirate Music, extends her interrogation of human-animal ...

Jessie Haas charts equine evolution in Hoofprints: Horse Poems. The more than 100 poems begin in prehistory, contemplating the lives of the biological ancestors of the horse, then move through the ...

A sunny reflection on the obstacles a couple has overcome The Horse and the Monkey I tell you that I am horse, you a monkey, fated by the Chinese zodiac to remain together as long as both partners ...

and see who in the end tames who, or let go, and see where you take me. Horse is from Mary O’Malley’s new collection, The Shark Nursery (Carcanet) which will be launched in Books Upstairs, D'Olier ...