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, ...

Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik — dead most likely of a Seconal overdose in 1972, a suicide at age thirty-six — entices the reader to try to puzzle out her life through her poems and would be ...

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 ...

The amount of poetry majors that I went to school with could all fit into a mid-sized van together, comfortably. Needless to say, it wasn't a hugely popular major — even at a creative writing school.

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 seasons have long been a source of inspiration for poets and writers and there are plenty of verses about what's currently going on outside your window - the onset of autumn. For some, October is ...

In 1076, Chinese poet and essayist Su Shi found himself in self-imposed exile hundreds of kilometers from the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) after a disagreement with those in power.