Irish Literature

Memory and Echoes

One of the delights of Leanne O’Sullivan stems from how cleverly she plays with Irish poetry, notably in her use of classical material. There are…

I made a posy.

The young George grew up surrounded by intellectuals and artists who would have a profound influence on his work, not least John Donne, a regular…

Irish Literature

Friends and Elegies

Michael Longley’s new collection invites us to consider and accept the presence of death within life, and their interconnectedness, which modern society often tends to…

World Literature

I made a posy, while the day ran by

A new biography of seventeenth century English poet George Herbert reads his life through his work and his work through his life, and suggests that…

Irish Literature

Rebroadcast Voices

A new collection of translations from Derek Mahon defends the notion of a republic of letters, where writers do not write in the isolation of…