While living in Belfast during the early 1950s, Stephen said Heaney published some poems under the penname Incertus - which ...

In James Merrill’s Collected Poems, all the “Previously Uncollected Poems” appear bunched together at the end, thus depriving ...

Billed as the definitive edition of Heaney’s poetry, this contains illuminating critical notes, along with previously uncollected poems and other unseen material. Published to mark the 30/10/2025 ...

Seamus Heaney’s newly discovered poetry is proof he was one of the best The writer’s ‘definitive’ collection is full of sex, guilt and status-anxiety. Plus, the best poetry collections of the year so ...

An original copy of the 1916 Proclamation, a collection of Seamus Heaney material, historical GAA items, and more, are listed in a sale to take place at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers in Castlecomer, Co ...

Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poetry readings that appear in this piece.

The poet, who has died at 88, was the people’s poet that too few people knew about. By Blake Morrison Of three great H-poets (H for heroic) who have died in my lifetime – Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and ...

Marina Carr’s greatest gift as a playwright has been her ability to transform dense classical literature into something that sounds like a conversation overheard at a mart. By the Bog of Cats ...

In What We Can Know, Britain has sunk beneath the waves – but literature remains buoyant By Christopher Tayler Ten years ago, the novelist Amitav Ghosh gave a series of lectures at the University of ...

The Liverpool poet Brian Patten has been described as a "force of nature" after his death at the age of 79. Fellow Merseyside poet Roger McGough said he was "laid low" by the news of his friend's ...

COMMENTARY: By honoring a senator who once won with pro-life support but later scored 100% with NARAL, Cardinal Cupich undermines the Catholic politicians who still fight for the unborn. Ranking ...