Robert Pinsky: ‘I don’t like the idea that poetry is marketed’
The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
Samuel Beckett and days redeemed by a book at bedtime
What we read before we sleep has always held a particular significance, argues Liam Browne, deputy artistic director of the Happy Days festival
What is poetry? Three masters look for answers
Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide
Alexis Stamatis: ‘I read to find myself again and to re-examine my place in the world’
Brought to Book Q&A: Greek novelist and poet on Emily Dickinson and Robert Mouzil
Michael Symmons Roberts: a religious poet in the secular age
Michael Symmons Roberts is at home in science as he is in scripture, as happy with the sensory world as with the transcendent – which makes his poetry all the stronger
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
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