“... idyll.In architectural terms, the modern haunted house owes much to a particular place: Carson Mansion, a gloomy Queen Anne Revival villa built for a lumber magnate in Eureka, California in 1886. Its appearance – higgledy-piggledy towers, oversized decorative details and an asymmetric frontage – was soon ...”

“... had in the Thirties. The way in which poets as diverse as Heaney, Muldoon, Longley, McGuckian, Carson and Mahon are to a certain degree sustained by a single symbolic world is something that poets like Armitage and Maxwell are trying to copy. In Maurice Riordan’s first collection, A Word From the Loki, the title poem reflects the practice, which Northern ...”

“... in his queering account of Swift, Aileen Douglas on his friendship with women poets, Rebecca Anne Barr on Swift and 18th-century masculinity, Anne Markey on Gaelic echoes in Gulliver’s Travels and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts’s placing of what was first published as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in ...”

“... eye’ fixed on ‘the bright days of her youth’, the seanbhean devotes herself in Ciaran Carson’s 1990 translation to ‘lamenting all the halcyon monotony of that pluperfect time’. Ní Dhomhnaill’s quarrel with this figure is not just that in the past men were hanged and ‘mowed down / In their hundreds’ when they answered her imperious ...”

“... heating up. By contrast, the news on population has been slow to filter through. In 1968, Paul and Anne Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which became an international bestseller and made Paul Ehrlich a fixture on the chat show circuit (he appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson more than twenty times). The ...”