The Irish Times

Go ahead, make my day: Pat Kenny gets all Dirty Harry about street ‘yobs’

Radio: The Newstalk host hears lurid tales of ‘urban terrorism’ on the streets of Dublin

Fri Aug 20 2021 - 06:00

Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83

Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics

Fri Jan 18 2019 - 05:00

Poets invited to ring in 2016 with €10,000 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize

There’s nothing like a deadline to get the creative juices flowing, though a big prize helps too, writes Rebecca O’Connor, editor of the Moth magazine

Wed Dec 02 2015 - 13:30

Poetic beasts: rhyming cats and dogs

Poets find fruitful focus in writing about their domestic pets, says Maureen Kennelly

Sat Nov 07 2015 - 00:37

The Moth: from flight of fancy to successful arts magazine

From the unlikely setting of a farmhouse in Cavan comes ‘The Moth’, one of Ireland’s ‘coolest poetry magazines’ that has now gained an international following, and is the work of a husband and wife team

Sat Aug 15 2015 - 01:00

‘Poetry’s advocates don’t need to go on the defensive: it speaks for itself’

As he publishes his eighth collection of poetry, 46 years after his first work appeared in print, the Irish Times Poetry Editor recalls how verse insinuated its way into his life via Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and the Beats

Tue Feb 24 2015 - 01:00

Billy Collins: ‘When I start a poem, I assume the indifference of readers’

The former US poet laureate believes in bringing poetry to the widest possible audience. Some critics have found his poetry to be lacking in complexity, but he’ll take that over wilful obscurity any day

Mon Aug 11 2014 - 01:00