By focusing in so narrowly, dealing with his native Irish farmland and life, Heaney nonetheless tapped into the universal.

Many of Cairns’ poems call readers to repent, not out of shame or self-loathing but out of the good news that awaits such surrender to a good God.

Through his poetic voice, Tennyson proclaims the way through, championing a love that overcomes nature’s ravages and enables a life that transcends them.

Getting at the central truth of a thing was the animating force behind Hopkins’ poetry.

Kavanagh posits that it is for the poetic mind to correct our vision and help us appraise events and people rightly.

Trethewey writes poems of uncomfortable truth.

Guite has an expansive mind, evident in his profound poetry that never fails to illuminate a dark corner of our often-mysterious reality.

Avison’s poetry regularly offers readers a glimpse of the divine at work in this everyday world.

Poetry compels our attention and captures our imagination. It draws us out of our perspective into another’s.