Dennis O’Driscoll is in the National Gallery at the moment                        looking at the Titians with another Irish poet, and this one is Seamus Heaney, who seems destined to be not only                the first Noble Laureate I’ve encountered but also, unless                        Toni Morrison plops herself in my lap...Learn More

I have met them in dark alleys, limping and one-armed; I have seen them playing cards under a single light-bulb and tried to join in, but they refused me rudely, knowing I would only let them win. I have seen them in the foyers of theaters, coming back late from the interval long after the others have taken their seats, and in deserted shopping...Learn More