Ballard, who wrote “on and off most of his adult life,” only turned to poetry at age 66. That being a mortality-aware time of ...

Paeans to rain and the monsoon are not new in the subcontinent. Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara offers resplendent rhymes to rain, a ...

Andrew is studying for an MA in writing at the University of Galway. His poetry has been published in The Cormorant Broadsheet and The Cormorant Anthology, Scrimshaw, and Ropes Literary Journal. He ...

Soundings was dumped off the Leaving Cert curriculum in 2000, but was something lost in the move to make the syllabus more diverse and contemporary?