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Roy Foster on the life of Irish poet W.B. Yeats
A look at the great visionary poet, the Novel Prize winner, William Butler Yeats. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Irish historian Roy Foster about the first volume of his new biography, W. B. Yeats, A Life, Vol. I. The Apprentice Mage.
Four hundred years of Irish poetry and prose, with Declan Kiberd
Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish literary historian Declan Kiberd about his new book Irish Classics, which covers four hundred years of poetry and prose, from Gaelic bards to Joyce and Beckett.
Irish author Donal Ryan on The Thing about December and The Spinning Heart
Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor talks with up-and-coming Irish novelist Donal Ryan. His work is being hailed as the next great thing from a highly literary nation. They talk about The Thing about December, and The Spinning Heart.
An onstage interview with Irish poet Paul Muldoon
A visit with Irish poet Paul Muldoon this week on Writers & Company. Muldoon won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, as well as the Griffin Award, for his most recent book of poems, Moy Sand and Gravel.