The fuchsias in the title of Quirke's doctorate owe life to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's lavish Leaba Shioda.All of us have scents, sensations, objects that are significant from our early years.

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They reveal the author as a grumpy romantic, often worried but always cheered by small and reassuring things. Sometimes, too, he shows himself adept at the why-oh-why column now a Daily Mail staple.

Award-winning poet and Buddhist teacher, Jane Hirshfield, talks about beauty, paradox, and the importance of spiritual presence.

In August 2017, during the Charlottesville riots, I was on the Gulf of Corinth for a two-week Ancient Greek seminar with a focus on Hesiod, when the old antagonism between letters and life reared its ...