The over-representation of published women poets reviewed in The Irish Times in 2019 was not a one-off. Sinead Morrissey, winner of the 2014 Irish Times Poetry Now Award, at the dlr Book Festival in Dún Laoghaire. As well as reviewing more poetry than any other Irish, British or indeed Anglophone newspaper over the past decade, The Irish Times has devoted a lot of attention to the issue of gender balance in Irish poetry, publishing and in the arts generally. Nor does it acknowledge that The Irish Times is a commercial organisation that has to have one eye on popular interest and appeal. Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times

Source: The Irish Times January 31, 2020 05:58 UTC