SeduceThe word has gone out that Seduce is dead, and the mourners gather on Church Island in the Caribbean for her wake. All bring their own memories of Seduce: her daughter Glory prays for the rescue of her mothers soul, but there are also those who have come to make sure that dutty filthy woman has finally ceased to be a temptress to the islands husbands. Her grandchildren, too, both in their different ways marked by growing up in such a conflicted

A very great variety of work

Stewart Conn on Derek Mahon

in large part

Three Polish Poets

he edited the seminal 60s magazine Poetry Ireland and was the founding editor in the early 1980s of its successor

Jade Cuttle

from the water

Alex Ferguson was born in Jarrow and lives in South Shields

wherever they are

“The best young performance poet around” – The Observer

He appeared regularly on Thought for the Day

and communicators with the wider world