Ahead of acclaimed journalist and broadcaster Fergal Keane speaking in Belfast next week, he chats with Áine Toner about his appreciation for local news and love for a local poet Fergal Keane Poetry matters to former foreign correspondent Fergal Keane. When speaking to Review, he was in France visiting the grave of poet Edward Thomas who was killed during the First World War. “I came to his work through Michael Longley.
Michael is a great admirer of Thomas, and through his recommendation I came to him. I’ve always wanted to go and see his grave; it’s very special,” he says, later crediting Longley as one of the “great cultural figures in Ireland and Britain”..
