Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estate ...

I have resisted the temptation to slip into Victor Meldrew mode when, last week, I came across acts of vandalism, omission, irritation or ...

The Strokestown International Poetry Festival 2026 will take place over the May Bank Holiday weekend from Friday to Sunday, ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being.” Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig A.O. Scott is a critic at large for the Book Review. Aliza Aufrichtig ...

The monthly Poetry Jam allows you to hear poetry a whole new way with backing from the Ish Ensemble in an unpretentious space ...

Ella Langley. Wesley Joseph. The spellbinding Juni Habel. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Chloe Kimes from WMOT in ...

The emotional finale of Ryan Murphy's latest anthology, Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette, is now available to stream on Disney Plus and has reduced many viewers to tears. While ...

The emotional finale of Ryan Murphy's latest anthology, Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette is finally streaming on Disney Plus and has left many viewers in tears. While actually ...

Yann Martel’s ambitious novel is composed largely of verse fragments from a fictional lost-and-found alternative to the Iliad of Homer – but you might be better off reading the real thing.

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

London by William Blake was published in 1794. It tells the story of a speaker walking through the city of London and noticing suffering all around them. London was published in Blake's poetry ...