Poetry 1 October 2015 “Burying the soldier”: a new poem by Declan Ryan Thomas Backer/Aurora Sign UpGet the New Statesman\'s Morning Call email. Sign-up *** Declan Ryan was born in Mayo, Ireland, and lives in London. A pamphlet of his poems was published in the Faber New Poets series in 2014. He co-edits the Days of Roses anthology series and is the poetry editor at Ambit. › Why Jeremy Corbyn should be drawn as a Jacobin in the French Revolution This article appears in the 24 September 2015 issue of the New Statesman, Revenge of the Left