Another summer has come and gone, and now it’s time for autumn. The transitional season between the sunny summer months and snowy winter season, many love autumn for chilled temperatures, cosy nights ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik — dead most likely of a Seconal overdose in 1972, a suicide at age thirty-six — entices the reader to try to puzzle out her life through her poems and would be ...

The sun will rise with two blue eyes. The stars will fall as fireflies. The trees will walk, the rocks will talk, The rest fall silent as the stalk. The fish will fly and swim the sky. In their hurry, ...

There is no doubt that the publication of Derek Mahon's The Poems (1961-2020) (Gallery Press, 536pp, €22.50pb/€35hb) is a major occasion in Irish literature. Bringing together, in their final forms, ...