Held in RK Narayan’s sleepy small town of Malgudi, the festival will feature some of the greatest writers ever – from William ...

There are perhaps no more cited words of poetry, at least poetry of a genuinely high order, than the opening stanza of W. B. Yeats’s haunting 1919 poem “The Second Coming.” ...

In this week's My Creative Career the Finnish photographer who has worked on campaigns for the likes of Chanel and Apple, speaks about how her background has given her a unique perspective, and why ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on ...

On his first day in office, a resurgent Donald Trump signed a raft of executive orders that will dramatically alter the global landscape, from the Atlantic to Latin America, from Africa to Asia.In his ...

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This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a friend told the Mandelstams about a bird he’d seen that, on its owner’s ...

Theatre, live music, talks and lots more are on the agenda this week in Sligo with plenty of events to tickle your fancy. Why not see January out in style by getting along to one of these ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

In his “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” W.H. Auden proclaimed, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Of course, with more knowledge at our fingertips today than sometime around lunch yesterday ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...