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February 8, 2021 I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about the example of Ciaran Carson, the Irish poet born in 1948, who wrote (like the rest of his generation from the North) in the immediate shadows of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, and who died in October 2019. I got to know Ciaran just a bit in 2013 when I was on a Fulbright to the Seamus Heaney Centre, which Ciaran had come to direct after many years as a freelance journalist, prose writer, translator, and poet. He was wry and dry-humored and always impeccably dressed. (Word is he had an attic absolutely packed with three-piece suit...

Graffiti walking tour of Belfast reveals world class street art gracing walls in the most unexpected places We took a walking tour of the artwork to find out the meanings behind some very impressive pieces The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Never miss a thing from Belfast and beyond - sign up for FREE newsletter direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer....

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate. O...

Published posthumously, the last of three Dante translations reveals Gray’s powers of insight and invention A detail from Hell, the first volume in Gray’s trilogy. Photograph: Alasdair Gray/Hell A detail from Hell, the first volume in Gray’s trilogy. Photograph: Alasdair Gray/Hell Thu 24 Dec 2020 02.30 EST Alasdair Gray, the great Scottish novelist and artist, died a year ago, in December 2019. In his biography of Gray, Biography (2008) – the closest thing we have to a contemporary Boswell’s life of Johnson – Rodge Glass concluded: “Alasdair will only be ap...

  Not the least of our losses in this plague year was one of our greatest poets, Derek Mahon. Washing Up (Gallery Press) is a glorious late harvest - vigorous, funny, angry, blithe - beautifully produced, like all Gallery editions, and including, appropriately, a lovely tribute to another luminary of the dead poets' society, Ciaran Carson. Mahon's last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a judicious selection from the magnificent six-volume Complete Letters of 2009. Had he not been a pain...