As I think I might have mentioned previously, May 1 is the official start of summer here in Ireland. And so, three months later August 1, Lughnasadh, is the first day of autumn. Lughnasadh, or Lammas, ...

Another summer has come and gone, and now it’s time for autumn. The transitional season between the sunny summer months and snowy winter season, many love autumn for chilled temperatures, cosy nights ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

This week's poem, "The Autumn Outings", is by the Hull-born poet Maurice Rutherford, and comes from his 1994 collection Love is a Four-Letter World, published by the (sadly) no longer trading Peterloo ...

There is no doubt that the publication of Derek Mahon's The Poems (1961-2020) (Gallery Press, 536pp, €22.50pb/€35hb) is a major occasion in Irish literature. Bringing together, in their final forms, ...

The day began at 5.45am with a reading of Edward Thomas’s poem in Farming Today. Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th April ...