Brighton author George W Jones argues that Beowulf isn’t a myth and that it didn’t mythically happen in Sweden.

Amelia Loulli has won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025, supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and run by The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.

Seamus Heaney matters, perhaps even more than he should, to many who are interested in poetry, in Ireland, or in both. For many critics the two blur. Of North, for example, Conor Cruise O’Brien said, ...