The earlier Sailing to Byzantium is better known, but Byzantium, dated 1930, is surely one of Yeats’s greatest poetic achievements. Although his occult and alchemical preoccupations, collected ...

Choreographer and dancer Liz Roche chooses her favourite Yeats poem, school standard 'Sailing to Byzantium' Wed Jun 10 2015 - 06:00 Why Liz Roche chose this poem ...

I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, or by a teacher at high school or a friend at university, but on an album that ...

Yeats: The Man And The Echo. Ep. 1/3 - The 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats, the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, ... Episode one, Sailing To Byzantium, ...

The 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats, ... Episode one, Sailing To Byzantium, is Niall Williams’ enchanting tale inspired by Yeats’ poem about mortality and immortality.