Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

“The question on the poetry of Derek Mahon asked about how ‘an audience’s appreciation of both Mahon’s language and thematic concerns would be enhanced if his poetry was read out loud’.

The poetry was a gift that he loved to give others. I remember when he was launching The Days of Surprise in 2015, there was an event at the Pavilion in Dún Laoghaire.

The number of critical books that can confidently take their place next to their subjects is small; this is certainly one of them. It is all the more remarkable given that the subject, Derek Mahon, is ...

Trinity has a notably rich literary heritage of its own, ranging from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland. The college has also long led the way in the teaching of ...

His outspoken courage enabled him to stay in Belfast, to ‘live it bomb by bomb’ (as described in Derek Mahon’s poem for James Simmons), and it is what provides unchallengable credibility for ...

The Belfast Group - as it became known - included Longley, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon and others. They met in pubs close to Queen's University and at the flat of a university ...

On December 14, cancer survivor Derek Mahon became the oldest Irish person to summit the highest peaks on seven continents when he reached the peak of Mount Vinson in Antarctica.

Derek Mahon: A Retrospective - A collection of essays that bring the poetry alive The poet was always good, and the more Mahon the better, but it’s possible the best came first Expand ...

Michael Longley is a master of his craft, known for his compact, meditative lyrics that explore themes of love, violence, nature and family. At the age of 85, he tells Jenny Lee why poetry still ...