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This is my last column in this series. ‘Farewell, all joys!’

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

O’Brien was winning the Goodwood showpiece for the third time, after the victories of Yeats in 2006 and 2008

Aidan O'Brien's rising staying star takes the Group One feature on day three in Berkshire with three-time hero Stradivarious third in his bid for record-equalling fourth success

Aidan O'Brien can take the Group One feature on day three in Berkshire while Whoputfiftyinyou, The Antarctic, Ouzo, Balhambar, History and Reach For The Moon may also triumph

Like the previous films he’s directed — 2014’s “Ex Machina” and 2018’s “Annihilation” — Alex Garland’s new folk-horror film “Men” has a lot going on underneath the surface: themes of gender and toxic masculinity, ancient signs and symbols, literary references to everything from the Bible to Yeats.

In Yeats’s words, ‘all changed, changed utterly’

The writer on growing up with Puffin books, his changing attitude to Conrad, and the punk sensibility of Elizabeth Bowen

"I would go into the Palace Bar and imagine myself in lineage with Kavanagh and Yeats"