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A poem recollecting visits to the Jesuit-run Belvedere College, in the north of Dublin, where James Joyce had most of his secondary schooling.
The poetry of Peter Steele is well-tempered, even when the subject is not. His themes are often modesty, doubt and brokenness, but his uses his grand style to produce measured tones and educated observations.
The concept of Catholic Culture Wars is destructive, because it makes truth the slave of power. Its logic can be seen in a recent Quadrant review, which projects onto an art exhibition a preoccupation with the occult and sexually ambiguous.
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
Tolkien’s epic resists allegory, but Dorothy Lee found it open to mythological and spiritual exploration.
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.
My grandmother lost four children. Born in the 1870s, she lived the perilous life of a respectable married woman of the working classes in the early part of the 20th century.
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
Mark Carkeet celebrates the life and work of Evelyn Waugh.
Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.
Keith Harrison recalls the life of Philip Martin.
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