A generous selection from Alice’s collection, The Occupied World, appears in a new anthology of Canadian poetry published in Ireland.How the Light gets in: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Canada is published by the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, in the School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology. Editor John Ennis (Chair of the Centre and Head of the School of Humanities) has assembled a massive 650 pages featuring 65 poets to create a remarkably detailed snapshot of the poetry now being published in this country.

The anthology was released in Waterford, Ireland, in mid-March as part of the new Sean Dunne International Festival of Arts and Culture. On April 23 (UNESCO World Book Day) the anthology was launched at the Canadian Embassy in Dublin by Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, and another launch took place at Cuirt, the biggest of the Irish international literary festivals.

Anthology review