Gortahork writer guest editor on highly-regarded publication

Gortahork writer Annemarie Ní Churreáin will be among three guest editors of the Poetry Ireland Review this year. Poetry Ireland recently announced their three guest editors and they are Maurice Riordan, Spring Issue, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Summer Issue, and Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe, Winter Issue. 

An award winning poet, Annemarie Ní Churreáin books include Bloodroot, Town and The Poison Glen. She is a recipient of the Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. Of her work The Yale Review has said: “Ní Churreáin often captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image. Ní Churreáin is  a former literary fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and The Jack Kerouac House in Florida. She is the 2022-23 Decades of Centenaries Artist in Residence with Donegal County Museum and Archives Service.”

This is the second year in which Poetry Ireland has welcomed guest editors for the Poetry Ireland Review. All three editors will review submissions for their respective issues of Poetry Ireland Review,139, 140 and 141, with Will Keohane commissioning poetry, prose, and artwork for Trumpet 12.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin said: “It’s a special honour to serve as a guest editor of Poetry Ireland Review. As I set out on this journey, I’m grateful for the work of previous editors and contributors, for the dedication of the staff at Poetry Ireland, and for the long tradition of fine writing that continues to flower through the pages of Poetry Ireland Review. The path ahead is lit.”

Previous editors of Poetry Ireland Review have included Colette Bryce, Vona Groarke, John F Deane, Caitríona O Reilly, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nessa O’Mahony, who edited the most recent issue which was dedicated to the life and work of poet and academic Eavan Boland (1944 - 2020).