Trumpet 1: 'You planted a tree. I wrote a poem' What more could anyone do?' features reviews of Iggy McGovern, Dawn Wood, Geraldine Mitchell and Billy Ramsell, plus James Conway's nuts 'n bolts article on setting up a Writing Group, Mark Granier on composing the short poem, and E
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Trumpet 2: 'Yesterday there were things to be done. Now, nothing. It closes in' features Myles Dungan reviewing war poetry, Tara Bergin's take on persona poetry, an essay on The Poet and the City by Maurice Harmon, Thomas McCarthy's assessment of new books from Patrick Deeley and
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Trumpet 7: 'You and your strange ways' features Roger McGough as he celebrates the fiftieth birthday of The Mersey Sound, still one of the best-selling poetry anthologies of all time; Duke Special writes about putting Michael Longley to music. Máighréad Medbh uses fragments of th
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Trumpet 6: 'No pandas no polar bears no ice no dice' features Hear this Robert Zimmerman, reflections on favourite Bob Dylan lyrics by writers and musicians; an "Open Letter from Ghetto na Gaeilge" by Caitlín Nic Íomhair; reviews of work by Tara Bergin, Jane Clarke, Adam Crothers
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Trumpet 5: 'plum tree - flowering too in the eye of the bullfinch', is an extended issue, features reviews of work by Breda Wall Ryan, Christodoulos Makris, and the anthology Once Upon A Place, edited by Eoin Colfer; Enda Coyle-Greene taking apart and putting back together her po
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Trumpet 3: 'Now the night prowls round my heart.' Trumpet 3 includes Andrew Jamison's essay on Heaney the Teacher, new poems from Billy Collins and Biddy Jenkinson, reviews of Jim Maguire and Colette Bryce, an article by Enda Wyley on making poems from paintings, plus David Whe
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Trumpet 4: 'Sing the note inside your head.' Trumpet 4 includes reviews of Maurice Riordan and Dylan Brennan by Alan Jude Moore, an alternative shortlist for Ireland's best-loved poems, a feature by Christodoulos Makris on new ways of writing, and poetry by Sheenagh Pugh, Theo Do
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