Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

Marjorie Eliot turned a family tragedy into a thriving community gathering space in Harlem for healing and reflection. “My ...

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 ...

About a year ago, along with a few others, I was involved in broadcasting literary programs in India and, among others, we broadcast a good deal of poetry by contemporary and near-contemporary English ...

INDIANAPOLIS — It had been 192 days since Eliot Wolf last stepped behind a microphone. In that time, his team lost 13 games. His roster crumbled. His head coach got fired. On Wednesday afternoon ...

‘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 ...