Although there are many funny limericks, the exact origins of the form have been lost to time, although they may date back to ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Perhaps most striking about this work is a kind of Dadaist playfulness rarely found in Irish poetry – perhaps closest would be the poems of Paul Durcan, with their absurdist propositions often ...