The writer on life after the death of her husband and the poem she wrote for Seán Rocks ‘I write from the heart. I try to get to the deep truth of what it means to be human and what people are like,” says Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Literature. Her writing is powerful. Recently, when broadcaster Seán Rocks died, she posted Dinner with Seán Rocks online – a moving poem she had written about him. Arena, his arts show on RTÉ Radio 1, had kept her company during Covid.