Northern Ireland is roughly the same size as the state of Connecticut, yet has produced a disproportionate number of celebrated poets and novelists. Looking for the threads that connect them, Alexander Poots discusses C.S. Lewis, who discovered Narnia in the hills of County Down; Anna Burns, chronicler of North Belfast and winner of the Booker Prize; and Seamus Heaney, a wry poet with the gift of surprise. Other authors covered here include Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, and Michael Longley.