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Poem of the week: "Seasons of the Lemon House" by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, from The Map of the World (2025). Read the ful...
11/07/2025

Poem of the week: "Seasons of the Lemon House" by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, from The Map of the World (2025). Read the full poem on our blog here: https://wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the-week/seasons-of-the-lemon-house-by-eilean-ni-chuilleanain/

Selecting this week's poem, past WFU Press intern Virginia Noone writes, "The ebb and flow of light and darkness, warmth and frost, mirror the rhythms that shape our lives. With a keen eye for the interplay of interior, natural, and spiritual landscapes, Ní Chuilleanáin reveals the quiet structures that bind them together."

“The bare ideogram announcing Tree / changes annually to a flourish / of intimate leaves” —Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “The ...
11/06/2025

“The bare ideogram announcing Tree / changes annually to a flourish / of intimate leaves” —Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “The Ash-tree at My Window.” (Featuring the glorious yellow gingko trees outside ZSR Library!)

The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is now available in North America from Wake Forest University Press. Learn more and order your copy on our website: https://wfupress.wfu.edu/books/the-map-of-the-world/

"This is a powerful set of essays, and its publication is a timely salute from afar by Kinsella’s long-time American pub...
10/20/2025

"This is a powerful set of essays, and its publication is a timely salute from afar by Kinsella’s long-time American publisher, Wake Forest." Sincere thanks to Thomas McCarthy for this excellent review of Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark: Essays on Thomas Kinsella. This review appeared in the Saturday Irish Times ahead of the book's Dublin launch at Books Upstairs yesterday afternoon.

"A big shout out to Wake Forest University Press who have been standing firm and trumpeting the cause of Irish literatur...
10/03/2025

"A big shout out to Wake Forest University Press who have been standing firm and trumpeting the cause of Irish literature in the United States and beyond." Huge thanks to Alan Titley for this wonderful (and funny!) two-part review of Bone and Marrow / Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern. Read the full review in The Irish Times. (This review is in Irish, but translation is available via Google Chrome and other web browsers, or your favorite translation app).

Part 1: https://www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/sceal/2025/09/25/agus-smusach-chomh-maith/

Part 2: https://www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/sceal/2025/10/02/airimh-agus-easnaimh/

We had a wonderful time in Boone this past weekend for the Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies at Ap...
09/30/2025

We had a wonderful time in Boone this past weekend for the Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies at Appalachian State University. The weekend was bookended by poetry, with an opening reading by Eamonn Wall and a closing reading by Stephen Sexton (via Zoom). In between, there were many more excellent readings and papers on the conference theme of "Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene." Thanks to Kathryn Kirkpatrick and all at ASU who welcomed us to the mountains on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, and thanks to everyone who stopped by our table.

We’re looking forward to the 20th Annual Bookmarks Festival this Saturday! We’ll be at table 5, across from the Hanesbra...
09/26/2025

We’re looking forward to the 20th Annual Bookmarks Festival this Saturday! We’ll be at table 5, across from the Hanesbrands Theater. Come on by and meet this year’s WFU Press interns. We’ll also be offering a special festival discount! 📚

For our friends in Boston: Doireann Ní Ghríofa is coming to Boston College as part of the Lowell Humanities Series on We...
09/19/2025

For our friends in Boston: Doireann Ní Ghríofa is coming to Boston College as part of the Lowell Humanities Series on Wednesday, September 24, at 7 pm! Learn more: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-news/articles/2025/fall/lowell-humanities-series.html

A poet and essayist, Ní Ghríofa’s most recent prose work, A Ghost in the Throat, has been sold in 20 languages and was a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, NPR, The New York Times, and the Irish Book Awards, as well as Foyles Nonfiction Book of the Year. It also won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, among other accolades. Her acclaimed books of poetry are explorations of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. A new North American selection of her poems, titled Lunulae, was published by Wake Forest University Press in 2024. Ní Ghríofa is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Ostana Prize, a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

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