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The information outlines the planning for a resumption of non-teaching activities after the COVID-19 shutdown of the University and considering national and local guidelines. The planning and risk assessment provide for a safe resumption of work on campus by all members of the School.

The editors have selected over 600 letters, written to almost 200 people from Berryman's literary sphere. Correspondence with Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Adrienne Rich, Saul Bellow, and other writers demonstrates Berryman’s sustained involvement in the development of literary culture in the postwar United States.

On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at the Trinity Long Room Hub online event, Fields of Vision: Seamus Heaney and Society, the launch of Seamus Heaney and Society by Dr Rosie Lavan was celebrated. Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press, this important new study discusses how the poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure.

Congratulations to Aoife Donnellan, a Senior Sophister student of TSM English Literature and Philosophy, who is one of the winners of the Digital Society Bursary 2020. Aoife received this award based on her Open Collections Capstone Project, a piece of independent research submitted as part of her final year in English Literature. This year’s bursary was aimed at graduating students in Ireland who are exploring the digital society within their practice.

There are seventeen essays which explore how poets such as Heaney, Boland, MacNeice, and Yeats engaged with Lowell in their work as well as framing Lowell’s work in Irish-American contexts. Contributors to the volume include Paul Muldoon and Gerald Dawe. The collection concludes with the introduction that Heaney gave a reading by Lowell in Kilkenny 1975 and an afterword by Marie Heaney.