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On Hell, I Love Everybody by James Tate, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro, All Souls by Saskia Hamilton, Crisis Actor by Declan Ry ...

As the home of writers Alannah Hopkin and the late Aidan Higgins, No 2 Higher OConnell Street has a strong literary tradition

As women, we have a duty to speak up about the atrocities of wars in the Ukraine and in Gaza and indeed the many wars that are obliterating and hurting generations across our planet.

The charismatic poet whose intimacy and boldness continues to inspire was born 95 years ago

As I write, we are rounding the corner on this holiday season, about to unwrap some presents and then step across the threshold of a new year. As such, I

Maurice Leitch, who died this year, left us vivid portraits of Antrim mill villages in decline, tense Border communities and Troubles-torn Belfast

Q&A: The author of Pure Filth on being a ‘roaming Catholic’, the problem with inviting Turgenev to dinner and the state of poetry

From unhappy beginnings, he finally found his place as a champion and publisher of a glittering and eclectic assortment of poets

Eddie Linden, who has died aged 88, was a poet and poetry editor who combined persistence, loyalty and a complete lack of inhibition to persuade the most prominent poets of the late-20th century to contribute to his magazine, Aquarius.

Poet overcame difficult childhood to found Aquarius magazine and co-found homeless charity