In the bogs

Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey

A History of England in 25 Poems: Treasures ...

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land