Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

In the Ancient Greek epic poem "The Odyssey," Odysseus' men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens' ...

Harriet Martineau was a feminist, social reformer and a leading 19th-century thinker who advised women on a healthy home lifestyle ...

George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and ...

The full programme for Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025 has now been announced, with the festival set to make a welcome return on April 25 and run until May 4. As an organisation, their aim is “to ...

Works of imaginative literature are not manuals for life, though they might along the way gift us with some wisdom; they are ...

Now she felt like a kite buffeted by the winds / Held aloft by the death-defying will / of a cut-and-bleeding, care-worn ...

Today (6 March) is World Book Day and schools and workplaces up and down the country are dressing as their favourite literary ...

Robert Kaplan views the world’s great power rivalry as ‘an interconnected system of states in which no one really rules.’ ...

‘If art is to make a contribution to a better world, art needs to be able to deal with reality,’ says George the Poet, who, at 34, marks this point in his career as a transition from ‘intuiting’ the ...

Biographers of T S Eliot face a number of challenges, not least the marked disinclination of their subject to having his biography written at all. When, in the early 1960s, a scholar wrote an account ...