After last year’s eccentric line-up, the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize (the UK’s most illustrious and most lucrative award for a book of verse) is back to business as usual. This is a sane list of mature ...

Twice a week, I meet with two elderly men to read poems out loud. The poems are ancient, even older than us. They’re usually ...

Community members are taking turns reading the complete works of William Shakespeare during a week-long marathon that ...

Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell novel Hamnet has had rave reviews, so I could not wait to see it. And it is a ...

A charity is hoping to help residents beat the January blues by offering free “bespoke poetry” to town centre passers-by.

Soon green turf shall cover you, bowler of high renown, Rest in peace, Tom - mourners you'll not lack! Verse would still pop ...

It is starting to become clear why some 'people seem to think Saka don't pass to Gyokeres'. One unfancied Arsenal star did nothing to convince Mikel Arteta.

A recent analysis of the American Time Use Survey revealed a steady decline in pleasure reading, reading that is not for work ...

Shakespeare North Playhouse hosts its first Gala Night with stars performing sonnets and music to raise funds for artist and youth ...

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Pope’s poem suggests years of philosophical meditation. Actually, he wrote it when he was twelve. Among modern poets, D.H.

The Paris Review interview with poet John Berryman was conducted in Minneapolis, the site of the May 25, 2020 crime scene ...