Gifts sent from a loved one abroad at first bring warmth and joy, then grave alarm
This Year Her Presentwasn’t a book —
my shelves sag under the weight of volumes
she’s given me over the last two decades
since I moved from Ukraine to Ireland;wasn’t a dress —
she has such a sharp sense of style:
Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect…
Mícheál McCann reviews new collections by Rachel Long, Billy Ramsell, Máighréad Medbh and Moyra Donaldson
A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
Fiona Benson was invited to Lviv’s BookForum by Ukrainian poet-soldier Artur Dron’. She recounts falling in love with the city…
Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace
