The Shark Nursery' is a one-of-a-kind book, filled with achingly beautiful poems that show a true artist at her absolute peak ...

A good modern history of Ireland is “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland” by Finton O’Toole (2021), whereas the classic “How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

Elsa lives in a remote seaside village; Nightingale, her new friend, lives in a city hundreds of miles away with her father, ...

From W.B. Yeats to James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, there is more than enough material from the most talented Irish writers to ensure you have a romantic message for that special someone on February ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

Margaret McCarthy describes “In the Becoming” as a “full circle moment.” The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” ...

The current of his feeling failed. He became his admirers. Now he is scattered among a hundred cities.

Evelyn Gleeson and the Yeats' sisters wanted their enterprise to provide women with economic independence and professional ...

I was afflicted with a sore throat and a mild headache, which I blame on Savannah’s wishy-washy weather that never fails to ...