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'So much of this festival is about celebrating Irish writers.' - Manuela Moser, Festival Director for Cúirt.

First thought: Thom Gunn, ‘Thoughts on Unpacking’. ‘I realise,’ he ends, ‘that love is an arranging.’ No sooner thought, I think of another, cracking conclusion: ‘The world might change… Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking.’ And then I think of ‘Breakfast Song’, another Elizabeth Bishop poem we’re lucky to have in print. Of Derek Mahon’s ‘Monochrome’. Of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Skunk’. Even Matt Healy’s ‘Somebody Else’ (as good as Dylan’s ‘Idiot Wind’). â�...

Analysis: while pandemic-era poetry uncovers the vulnerabilities of humanity, it also reminds us that disasters do end Indian poet and essayist Arvind Krishna Mehrotra describes his experience of living in the pandemic era as follows. "My sense of mortality is keener than ever. In my garden, I look at an unfamiliar sapling and wonder if I would ever find out its name." Mehrotra's keen sense of mortality and heightened attention to his surroundings also acts as the driving force behind for how many poets are addressing these times. Recent writing from Irish poets has especially focused on t...