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President-elect Joe Biden waves as he departs St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church, Nov. 15, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

November 16, 2020

When ‘hope and history rhyme’: Joe Biden quotes an Irish poet to inspire healing in America

Mark Libin, University of Manitoba

In the drama of envisioning a future for the United States, Joe Biden and Donald Trump both invoked stories about snakes to suggest different views about self-interest and the common good.

Nelson Mandela’s legacy in poetry can re-familiarise us with the values he embodied. EPA/Stringer

July 17, 2018

Centenary of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s birth: a tribute in poems

Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Karin Berkman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nelson Mandela’s release in 1990 was met by an outpouring of poetic celebration both within South Africa and globally.

Seamus Heaney up close with the local environment. Burns Library, Boston College

September 2, 2013

Seamus Heaney - the death of a naturalist

Eóin Flannery, Oxford Brookes University

The sudden death on Friday of the Irish Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney has focused international minds and media on the power of poetry to affect our lives. This is especially true from an environmental…

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Eóin Flannery
Reader in Irish Literature, Oxford Brookes University
Louise Bethlehem
Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Karin Berkman
Post-doctoral researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mark Libin
Professor, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media, University of Manitoba

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