Fiona Kelleher has set some of the works of poets Seán Ó Riordáin and Séamus Ó Céilleachair to music, writes Pet O'Connell

Poet Pat Boran in conversation with Hilary Fennell.

Our love affair with love poetry’s as old as time and showing no signs of fading, writes Rita de Brún.

Louis de Paor and Greg Delanty will be among the readers at an event tonight in memory of the Corkman who passed away in May, writes Marjorie Brennan

LITERARY journal Southword, published by an imprint of the Munster Literature Centre, has come full circle. It started life as a physical publication but the last time it appeared in print was in 2009 after which it was only available online.

Aosdána poet Matthew Sweeney had a gift for friendship and his mischievous smile and warm bearhugs led him to be much treasured by family, friends and his peers, a ceremony celebrating his life at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork city has heard.

Indiependence Music & Arts Festival has revealed some of the latest acts to feature at this year's festival.

As he launches his latest collection of poetry at Cork World Book Fest, Matthew Sweeney tells Colette Sheridan about his attitude to life and creativity while also grappling with motor neurone disease.

Brian Turner secretly wrote his first collection of poetry while in Iraq with the US army. He will read this week in Cork, writes Colette Sheridan.

Des O’Driscoll rounds up the best things to do this week

Cork-born poet, Liam Ó Muirthile, was inspired by his journey along the Camino, writes Marjorie Brennan

FAMILIARITY with contemporary poetry writing in English eases one’s passage through this most enjoyable tome, and even a nodding acquaintance with Cal Lowell and his contemporaries, including Berryman and Elizabeth Bishop, or, closer to home, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, helps distil the purity from the precis-like quality of the analysis. 

Poet Thomas McCarthy celebrated Ronan O’Gara with a specially commissioned poem recognising his prowess as an outhalf, referencing his record 2,625 points total with Munster. 

A fortuitous meeting between a literary couple and a celebrity chef has resulted in one of the world’s most lucrative poetry prizes, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Stuck for cultural events this week? Des O’Driscoll has great suggestions for you, whether it’s tv or theatre you’re in the mood for.

Some people are born to see deep value in adversity, and John Prine was born to turn that human triumph into poetry.

Aidan Murphy mines the events of his life, good and bad, for his poetry, writes Colette Sheridan.

How many have you read?

Today is World Poetry Day, so Jonathan deBurca Butler asked a number of people to select their favourite work

Pretty funny!

Kerry County Council has honoured poet Brendan Kennelly, who has returned to live in his native ‘Bally’, or Ballylongford, a place “full of stories”, after an absence of more than half a century.

Alannah Hopkin discusses the inspiration behind her new book of poems and songs about Cork City, On the Banks.

Irish poet John Montague has died at the age of 87.

The lapidary line of the tubercular John Keats is almost a cliché — “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” writes Damien Enright.

One of the victims of the shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub wrote a poem as she lay in a hospital bed on Monday night.

"A POEM is always aware, for me, of what’s happening around it.”

By the time Saul Williams got to poetry, he already had a solid grounding in hip-hop culture, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

And take our quiz to test your poetry knowledge.

IT is 30 years since Philip Larkin’s untimely death from cancer in 1985 at the age of 63, a death he had long predicted.

Seamus Heaney’s famous line to “walk on air against your better judgement” has been inscribed as an epitaph on his gravestone.

And now a rhyme and verse tribute has been paid to the addiction and frustration, as well as pride and devotion, of following the resurrected club.

Things fall apart, wrote Yeats, but they also come together, as they did in Manhattan on Monday night, when a thousand guests attended a celebration of the poet’s 150th birthday.