I’ve been browsing through William Bennett’s “Book of Virtues,” a collection of “moral” poems, stories and essays selected to illustrate self-discipline, compassion, responsibility ...

By John Burnside New Selected Poems, 1988-2013 Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber, 222pp, £18.99 In September 1994 Seamus Heaney revisited Tollund in Denmark, the imaginative locus of his fourth collection ...

By John Burnside New Selected Poems, 1988-2013 Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber, 222pp, £18.99 In September 1994 Seamus Heaney revisited Tollund in Denmark, the imaginative locus of his fourth collection ...

quite a few of the poems in The Fox Petition concern George Jeffreys and his "sometime lover", Clare Collins, both of whom carry considerable moral baggage from their earlier lives – which ...