Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets bulletin It's a hand in a

It's a hand in a velvet glove

' – Fatemeh Keshavarz

inspired by the pictures of the Portuguese artist Paula Rego

satirical but not afraid to be plain daft

Kristín Ómarsdóttir’s work resists the sweet

Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets bulletin It's a hand in aWRITING HOME: THE NEW IRISH POETS is a major new anthology of writing from Ireland that acknowledges and celebrates the contribution of those whose roots lie outside of the country. This 200 page anthology features more than 50 poets whose places of origin range from Angola to Japan, Saudi Arabia to Poland, Italy to India, Canada to Romania, Greece to Brazil, with the UK, the US and many other places being also represented. Individually these writers