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NEW IN: Jacobin, Issue 61: Teen Issue

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 50,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 2,000,000 a month.

With the strap line ‘Reason In Revolt’, Jacobin tackles politics from a firmly leftist standpoint, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Recent issues of Jacobin have seen the New York-crafted magazine expand; in terms of its physical size, pagination, and (by the looks of things) its team, which has also seen a reshuffle.

“All of [our] policies strive to inspire the youth with belief in its own strength and in the future. Only the fresh enthusiasm and aggressive spirit of the youth can guarantee the preliminary successes in the struggle; only these successes can return the best elements of the older generation to the road of revolution. Thus it was, thus it will be.”

— Leon Trotsky, “The Transitional Program,” 1938

Published by Jacobin 
Softcover 
159 pages 
205 x 275 mm 
ISSN 725274262816

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NEW IN: Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 148

Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual artists.

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 148, edited by Sinéad Morrissey, is now available for pre-order purchase. It features new poems from Leontia Flynn, Frank Ormsby, Mai Ishikawa, and Jim McElroy, as well as work from rising poets Judy O’Kane and Joshua Beatty, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Cúán de Búrca.
The issue includes an interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin to celebrate and commemorate the publication of the 100th and final issue of Cyphers magazine. Vona Groarke visits Thoor Ballylee, once home to William Butler Yeats and his wife George, documenting their domestic lives at that time and speculating on the part the tower’s physical presence played in the crafting of the memorable poetry W.B. Yeats wrote there.

Also included in this issue are two quick-fire Q&A’s with poets Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha and Louis de Paor. There are 23 titles reviewed in PIR 148, including new work from Tom Paulin, Mark Granier, Moya Cannon, Audrey Molloy, and Éireann Lorsung. At opposite ends of the publishing journey, a landmark publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney is reviewed, as are debut collections from Susanna Galbraith and Sam Furlong, both poets published by Belfast’s newest publishing house, Macha Press.

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NEW TLP EDITION: the right hand holds the left, Emily O’Connell

The right hand holds the left (2026), an extension of and the I ran’(2023), further develops the visualisation of the artists’ grandmother’s recollection of her time in a mother and baby home, Ireland, 1964.

These state-funded, religiously operated institutions frequently failed to provide adequate care for mothers and babies. Many babies were given up for adoption, like the artist’s dad. At Castlepollard mother and baby home, women were forced to change their names, some assigned house numbers, others saint’s names, erasing personal identity. O’Connell’s grandmother Muriel became “Bernadette”.

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For those that are not familiar with the project, TLP Editions is an ongoing collection, produced and designed by PhotoIreland, that presents work by contemporary artists in the form of uncomplicated publications. These are available through The Library Project in-store and online. All and any funds generated by the project go to producing more copies of the publications, ensuring we can keep promoting the artists and practices represented. These editions are regularly showcased and donated to international events and festivals, such as the Icelandic Photography Festival recently. In addition, TLP Editions also grace some important shelves and collections, including that of the Hasselblad Foundation Library and the Martin Parr Foundation.

You can find a list of all the TLP Editions here.

PhotoIreland is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland to develop support projects such as the TLP Editions.