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A place where WB Yeats loved echoes to the sound of his poetry

Who was W. B. Yeats and why he still matters

The poet, Nobel laureate and Abbey Theatre founder helped shape Irish literary and political life while writing some of the country’s most enduring lines.

A poem for the ages

“The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all.” Lord Byron....

Deaths

BYRON. — On 20 May, the Revd Terence Sherwood Byron: Assistant Curate of the Cathedral of the Redemption, New Delhi (1960-65); Vicar of All Saints’, Jaipur, with Bandikui, Bharatpu...

William Butler Yeats and the women who shaped his poetry

A new look at Yeats explores how nine women helped inspire some of his most enduring work.

An Ode to .. Qiulae Wong

How WB Yeats' connection to Sligo stretches back through generations

An extract from the book "Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the People and Places That Inspired Him" by Kevin Connolly.

Between the Mountains and the Gantries

All the recent headlines about Belfast have brought to mind the following poem by Louis MacNeice. It has nothing to do with the current turmoil in Northern Ireland, but I offer it...

a younger poet’s response

"Younger Poet's Reply"...

An Ode for .. Lord Winston

Inside the basement levels of the Dark Tower, Lord Winston summons forth the evil dead known as M...

Poem: Triton, Oxford 1857

Drink as if in a dream of lovers. The post Poem: Triton, Oxford 1857 appeared first on The Oxford Student.

Beautiful People in Dunedin: the Sunday Poem

Lines on the uneven distribution of beauty in Dunedin...

Sligo and Lithuania mark EU Council presidency pairing with WB Yeats exhibition at County Hall

Poem: May day

I picture myself, picturing us. It is the morning of the first and the night of the 30th I, inebriated by your eyes, look up at your limelight. In the year before you laid your hea...

Yours

Yours...

15th Yeats Day brings good news with plans for a newly-imagined visitor experience

Poem written by Junior Cert pupil’s mother appears in his English paper

Emily Cullen’s Envoi in Chalk was also inspired by student Lee when he was young boy

Yeats’s Nobel Prize win marked a turning point in Irish literature

The Dublin-born poet and playwright was honored in 1923 for work that gave powerful voice to the spirit of a nation.

W.B. Yeats’ "Lake Isle of Innisfree" reveals an unexpected American thread

W. B. Yeats’ beloved poem is steeped in Irish nationalism, but its roots reach across the Atlantic to ideas of self-reliance, freedom, and cultural identity.

At a poet’s memorial, I saw how Andy Burnham could be a different kind of prime minister | Blake Morrison

The putative PM-to-be explained how one of Tony Harrison’s poems gave him a new outlook – one that the country is sorely in need ofTwo weeks before Josh Simons stood down as the Ma...

Of An Obscurity Of Poets

A parliament of owls will gather round to have a chat,...

Canadian PM Mark Carney quotes WB Yeats and his ‘indomitable Irishry’ in dealing with Trump on Irish visit

Poet

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Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

HOW is the past made present to us? It is a good question to ask and answer in the ancient city of Chester, where I have come on a writing retreat, and also to speak and read at th...