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Seamus Deane, leading Irish writer and critic, has died aged 81 Derry author best known for Reading in the Dark and Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature Thu, May 13, 2021, 10:34 Updated: Thu, May 13, 2021, 10:52   Seamus Deane, for the past 50 years one of Ireland’s foremost writers and critics, best-known for his award-winning autobiographical novel Reading in the Dark and the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, died last night in Beaumont Hospital after a short illness. He was 81. Arts Council chair Prof Kevin Rafter said: “A gifted writer and a profound intellec...

First thought: Thom Gunn, ‘Thoughts on Unpacking’. ‘I realise,’ he ends, ‘that love is an arranging.’ No sooner thought, I think of another, cracking conclusion: ‘The world might change… Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking.’ And then I think of ‘Breakfast Song’, another Elizabeth Bishop poem we’re lucky to have in print. Of Derek Mahon’s ‘Monochrome’. Of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Skunk’. Even Matt Healy’s ‘Somebody Else’ (as good as Dylan’s ‘Idiot Wind’). â�...

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The Poetry Programme returns with Eamon Grennan & Irish PEN Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021 07:00 Eamon Grennan features in The Poetry Programme (Pic: Rachel Kitzinger) The Poetry Programme returns for a new series on Sunday 10th January, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, when Eamon Grennan speaks with Olivia O'Leary from his home in the USA about his new collection, and poets Kate Ennals and John O'Donnell talk about the activities of Irish PEN. Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin and was for many years Professor of English at Vassar College in New York State. Since 1983 he has published eleven colle...

  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...