Fistfuls of beryls and rivets and citrines: Edith Sitwell in Lecale
Edith Sitwell and Downpatrick County Down
Worn habitual ways: shire & barony
I WAS first introduced to Edward Boaden Thomas's The Twelve Parts of Derbyshire at the Derwent Poetry Festival in Matlock in 2013....
Swords & pointy slippers: art at play
IN WARNER Brothers’s King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), the Norman monarch (lantern-jawed George Sanders) tests his steel broadsword...
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
