Seamus Heaney’s later years: Nicholas Allen explores his final poetry volumes
Allen examines ageing, illness and the enduring light of Heaney’s poetic world
By Bernard O’Donoghue
Fog Bells: A flavour of the depth and richness of the poetry currently being written in Turkish
Good Slut by Zoe Strimpel: Blind spots and biases quickly show in this myopic manifesto
A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello: Timely homing in on sorrows particular to women
Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’
Sarah Crossan: ‘Meeting amazing teenagers was a highlight of being Laureate na nÓg’
Dragons, drowned worlds, different realities: March’s YA fiction picks
Book reviews in brief: Irish Nation Building; Crick: A Mind in Motion; Trip
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POETRY
Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska: Moving account of ordinary folk caught in second World War
By Pat Carty
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!: Liza Minnelli sets the record straight in revealing memoir
By Colm McKenna
Seamus Heaney: from ancient Greece to home turf, Northern shades and the Nobel Prize
By Nicholas Allen
John Lanchester: ‘My mother was a born storyteller. It is often a form of misdirection’
By Mia Levitin
Author Mary Costello: ‘Gaza has disabled me. I think, how could I go into a room and make up stories?’
By Edel Coffey
You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate: Raw, fast-paced memoir full of dark humour
By Julia Kelly
Joseph O’Connor on Anthony Cronin: ‘Tension between content and style is where his wonderful energy arises’
By Joseph O’Connor
The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna: Menopausal protagonist brought low by a lousy husband
By Brigid O'Dea
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
By Michael Russell
