Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

The following is an exploration of the poetry of Irish sayings and phrases ... coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life." Irish language is also famous for its use of metaphors ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Well, for Irish poet Padraig O Tuama, seeing the world through poetry is a calling, whether that's his own ... Why did you ...

He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and ... emotionally expressive or tortured tribute to a real-life Muse than that contained in the poems and plays of Yeats inspired ...

Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers of Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world.

The son of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley said his family have been “overwhelmed” with the outpouring of love ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...