Poetry collection touches on the most personal

This contains an eclectically democratic mix of familiar and unfamiliar voices

Belfast in the 1980s: Ciaran Carty describes the violence of the time and a city of invisible maps Pic: GETTY

Poetry: The Deep Heart’s Core, Irish poets revisit a Touchstone poem Edited by Eugene O’Connell and Pat Boran, Dedalus Press, €12.95

I am always surprised but slightly shocked when my publishers receive a request for permission to include a poem of mine in some anthology. My surprise is at being included where there are so many fine poets out there. My shock is because the poems chosen by editors are often poems I’ve ...