Reading a book for the first time can have the flavor of a walk in an unknown wood – the way seems long because everything in front of you is new. Re-reading a book is like a retracing of your footsteps. Certain signposts tell you where you…

So much of Welsh literary culture seems to revolve around the continued revival of the Welsh language and it's increasing primacy in official circles. It makes reading this collection of haiku from Paul Chambers refreshing. Chambers, in…

In late September of 2017, Trevor Joyce’s Fastness was the subject of a cursory - one might say dismissive - review in the Irish Times . Notwithstanding, Fastness is a book that - in line with the rest of Trevor Joyce’s body of work -…