Mercy by Róisín Kelly John Irons and not just what we

and not just what we expected to find

Politics are never far away: modern man’s severance from the earth

love and poetry itself

William Bedford’s The Dancers of Colbek explores his own early years among the market towns and seacoasts of Lincolnshire

magical worlds these poems inhabit

Mercy by Róisín Kelly John Irons and not just what weIreland. Night. A grotto to the Virgin Mary illuminates a deserted road. Overhead, the soundless roar of the Milky Ways glittering traffic reminds us of a past that runs parallel to our own uncertain times. Olives ripen in a Portuguese valley. The sound of gunfire approaches a Paris caf. Irish women revolutionaries march towards their future. Tigers prowl through County Leitrim's rural townlands, whose old names emerge like neon signposts from the