Commemoration events celebrating the works of renowned Irish poet WB Yeats are to take place in countries across the world next year. Launched tonight, Yeats 2015 is a year-long programme of ...

Theo Dorgan explores the way the poet WB Yeats is ... reveal of his place in the national memory. And Ireland's president, Michael D. Higgins, himself a poet, ponders what Yeats would think ...

W B Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many ...

In his influential book The Empty Space the English director Peter Brook wrote about what he called the Holy Theatre, or "the notion that the stage is a place ... not mention WB Yeats at all ...

Yeats was self-aware in something of this same precocious and extravagant manner, and aware as well of how others of his time and place were aware of him. He played both to the mirror of himself ...

One hundred years ago, on this day in 1923, the winner was the Irish modernist William Butler (WB) Yeats. But instead of disputing each year's winner, scrutinising the contexts around these ...