Colm TĂłibĂn – Favourite Things
The Irish novelist, poet and critic, Colm TĂłibĂn, shares his five favourite things.
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The Irish novelist, poet and critic, Colm TĂłibĂn, shares his five favourite things.
Featured in A.E Housman’s collection of poems A Shropshire Lad, “On the Idle Hill of Summer” describes the onset of conflict in the English countryside.
In this week’s poem, Henry King expresses eagerness to meet his deceased wife once again in the afterlife.
In this week’s poem, Hart Crane rifles through his late grandmother’s old boxes and discovers a deeper insight into her persona.
In this week’s poem, Niccolo Degli Albizzi describes the sorry sight of a procession of Roman soldiers returning from battle.
In this week’s poem, Cavafy uses the telling of Odysseus’ travels to emphasise the importance of the journey, not just the destination.
This week’s poem exhibits some of the traits that characterise that energetic and exalted phase in European literature.
In this week’s poem, Thomas Hardy depicts a funeral procession and engages with themes of religion and the sublime.
In this week’s poem Rainer Maria Rilke compares the movement of a swan to man’s experience of life and death.
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