Stamford’s biennial Verse Festival returns to Stamford Arts Centre next month, to bring both some of the best of Britain’s ...
Every morning my father wakes up and reaches for his notepad. He is composing the day’s poem, which he will post on Facebook, even before the kettle has boiled.
Lynx House was a real house first. The Lynx was a painting rescued from the dump and hung on the wall. The home was shared by friends going through the University of Massachusetts’ master’s of fine ...
David Murdock shares his 'incredible pleasures of life,' from blooming trees and lizards to books and quirky statues.
To understand this poem, you don’t need biography. Your own personal understanding of the loss of innocence and the pain of mortality serve just as well as Thomas’s disastrous attempts at adulting.
By day, Russ McSpadden works as a Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. But McSpadden is also a poet, and he’s recently published a collection called “Borderlings.” ...
Booksellers, bookstagrammers, Singapore Writers Festival directors and local publishers share their SingLit recommendations as selected Singapore literature titles become eligible for the SG Culture ...
Sierra Madre Playhouse will present the North American premiere of One Million Words – Rilke, a hit solo show inspired by the groundbreaking work of poet Rainer Maria Rilke created by and starring Ivo ...
Even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was young once. You wouldn’t know it from the photos, thanks to which he is “enshrined in the national memory” as a “Victorian bard,” face swallowed by “a tremendous beard,” ...
Existentialism is a philosophical theory and a literary perspective. Its central proposition is that the world has no a ...
Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...
John Keats left his fledgling medical career behind to become a poet, but the critical reception of his early work was scathing – some published reviews called him an uncouth cockney who should have ...