This blog post features a speech from Edna Longley who was guest speaker at a recent launch for The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, held at No Alibis bookshop in Belfast.
Read MoreI wrote Yeats and Modern Poetry because I think that W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) did more than any other poet to create something we recognise as ‘modern poetry’. Without Yeats, there might not be a ‘poetry month’ today. For me, T.S. Eliot is a much more academic poet than Yeats – which explains why Eliot is […]
Read MoreCelebrate National Poetry Month with Cambridge University Press! In this blog post editor and poet Gerry Dawe discusses his forthcoming book The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets.
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