Yeats Now: Echoing Into LifeW. B. YEATS believed that lyrics can take on a second beauty, passing as it were out of literature and becoming life. By focusing on Yeatss most memorable lines of poetry, Joseph Hassett reveals new ways of enjoying a body of work that speaks to the twenty first century in this Yeats companion. For example, The Stares Nest by my Window is informed by the circumstances in which it was written. Locked in his tower amid the violence and uncertainty of

with many going on to have significant careers in Ireland and around the world

the Walshs of the Loire

discovering world music in Morocco and returning to London to shape pop culture at Island Records

’ SALLY ROONEY

professor and director of Otago University

The Bicentenary in 1970 saw one of the great occasions of the Society

What emerges from The Whole Matter is a picture of Kinsella’s astonishingly far-reaching evolution

The Thing About December by Donal Ryan Mother always said January is a lovely month

An usherette in the Metropole saw him at An Apartment for Peggie

or in his inspired readings

The fruit of intensive research

a man who served his country in Germany and Italy during the first two decades of Ireland’s independence tell the story of ‘an exotic individual cast by the oddest circumstances into a minor role on the world stage’