Gnomes of Donegal - Frank McNally on William Allingham’s peculiar brand of Irishness
And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...
Looking back on poetry and how we weren’t averse to reading verse
Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...