Paul is from Belfast and lives in Clonakilty. He was awarded the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize by Carol Ann Duffy. Other poetry awards include first prizes in The Moth International, the Nottingham Open ...

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A reader by the name of Tim contacted us earlier this week to highlight a “bugbear” of his that we have no doubt many others share – paperless billing. In truth, his bugbear is not so much ...

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Brodsky’s poetry is both addictive and exasperating. Addictive because, never satisfied, the reader keeps going back for more; exasperating because it eludes every attempt to pin it down. What was he ...