When we met, I was a 20-year-old girl with a desperate desire to be loved. Mark was a 30-year-old bartender with a penchant ...

President Michael D Higgins has conferred the honour of Saoi of Aosdána on the poet Paul Muldoon.

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

John Lennon may have been intrinsicallyu linked to Yoko Ono ever since they met, but he wasn't quite ready to share in ...

There is madness, yes. But imperialism has always been tinged with madness. Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been either killed or subdued so that a small part of the ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic ...

But after Lamar dropped a verse on Big Sean’s “Control” in 2013 that challenged several popular rappers by name – including Drake – things started looking icy between the two.

The new novel from the author of Understory explores what happens when mining dramatically changes life on Earth.

Rather than dwelling on falsehoods and misinformation, I want to emphasize why truth and trust are so vital in politics.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...