
Hewitt's bony finger
Reflections on the Ulster poet John Hewitt

Unhome: illness, reading & not ending well
Something about Georges Bernanos, being mortal, and how things may not turn out well at all.

Not suitable for children: Somerset Maugham and me
Somerset Maugham as a model for the writer's life

John Hewitt recollected
POSSIBLY THE very first thing John Hewitt the man said to me was “There’s no point being a poet if you keep your mouth closed.” It was...

Exchanges, confidences, intimacies, worries, transactions
Sheehy Skeffington, poetry and Downpatrick

A Mighty Force
Tribute to poet Seamus Heaney on his death