Ten Poets Charm the Pants Off Ten Historical Figures Tania HershmanPoets are famous rakes, seductresses and time travellers, are they not? Cast all doubt from your mind by taking in these ten tantalising accounts of extremely inter generational flirtation, whereby prominent persons from history are left weak kneed and willing. But is that all there is to it? Or are our poets, as poets tend to be, up to much else besides mere dalliance? And will they change the past forever, or vanish into it?
It's as seductive of the inner ear as Irish storytelling is of the outer
Banipal’s first issue of 2010 celebrates authors from Iraq with over half its 224 pages devoted to fiction and poetry by 21 writers from different generations
classed in our engagement with language and literary culture
in the next seat at the theatre
these poems are both personal and impersonal
and pensive
an obsession shared with Jack Kerouac
James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care
following his Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize shortlisted
these unflinching poems work towards the hard-wired truths of life itself - finding hope in survival
the Idyll and the Warrior – a division that he portrays in a good many of his most intimately observed characters
hypnotherapist and psychologist
