On Victoria Kennefick's 'Egg/Shell'
Victoria Kennefick’s second collection Egg/Shell builds on and deepens the achievements of Eat Or We Both Starve.
Read MoreVictoria Kennefick’s second collection Egg/Shell builds on and deepens the achievements of Eat Or We Both Starve.
Read MoreThoughts on teaching the extraordinary poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Read MoreA reflection on reading eclectically, and on how books connect to each other in surprising and fruitful ways.
Read MoreJason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello is a thought-provoking collection of poems.
Read MoreThe argument for the most ‘important’ subject in school being … poetry.
Read MoreMartha Dickinson Bianchi’s Emily Dickinson: Face to Face is a brilliant evocation of her aunt’s life next door in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Read MoreA poem based on the opening of Henry James’s masterpiece The Portrait of a Lady.
Read MoreJonathan Bate’s Bright Star, Green Light, a parallel-biography of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is essential reading for English teachers.
Read MoreThe UCD Special Collections exhibition ‘Heaney & the Classics’ has been launched, with Roy Foster (pictured) giving the key address.
Read MoreA talk on Yeats’s poem ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’.
Read MoreAnthony Joseph’s Sonnets for Albert deals with the troubled heritage of his father’s past with honesty, control and grace.
Read MoreMarion Turner’s The Wife of Bath a biography is a thrilling follow-up to her major biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, placing the fictional character in her literary and cultural context, and then looking at her many and persistent ‘afterlives’ through history.
Read More15 short talks on elements of poetry, using one or two poems in each case.
Read MoreAn audio interview with the late Professor Terry Dolan about the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Read MoreMolly Twomey’s collection ‘Raised Among Vultures’ is an impressively accomplished début.
Read MoreKatherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne is a thrilling revisiting of poems that may be 400 years old, but are still fizzingly alive.
Read MoreRoy Foster’s overview of the life and career of Seamus Heaney is careful, balanced, and skilful, covering a lot of ground in a relatively short book.
Read MoreZadie Smith’s The Wife of Willesden is a lively and enjoyable drama, bringing Chaucer’s Wife of Bath into the twenty-first century.
Read MoreJames Harpur’s collection The Examined Life is a highly pleasurable sequence of poems recalling his time in an English boarding school in the 1970s.
Read MoreWilliam Wall’s new book of poems tells the story of a strange year, moving from Italy just before the pandemic started to life in County Cork, culminating in Christmas 2020.
Read More