Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter on Groundhog Day 2025. Since 1886, ...

A new short folk-horror film based on a north Antrim legend has been screened at a US film festival. The Witch of Glentow, by ...

Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult ...

Long ago, as students, we read Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ in which the boast of the protagonist lay buried in the sands and it said, ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works, ye ...

Dr Sanjeev Chopra Authors of most books published in the last two years – and I know this from reading the Prologue/Preface/Acknowledgments in books nominated for the Valley of Words Book Awards – ...

The principle of equality is theoretically recognized as one of the fundamental foundations of democracy. Over the years, ...

If you're looking to get into the music of Leonard Cohen, these ten songs are the perfect place to start with his lengthy and influential discography.

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The gathering near Sandra Birchmore's apartment in Canton was organized by Justice for Sandra Birchmore, a Facebook group ...

Sunlight was emerging through the clouds on St Brigid’s Day, marking the Celtic start of spring, as they came to honour a poet of the natural world. Up to 300 mourners packed into a Belfast church on ...

Bhakti poet Andal, Marathi mystic Dhyaneshwar and Tamil poet Subramania Bharati have all used birds as rich metaphorical ...

After a military coup, Sudanese filmmakers and their subjects had to flee Khartoum and decide whether to continue the ...