Language has a remarkable way of capturing not just meaning but sensation. Some words seem to sound like what they describe, ...

Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

Former creative director of CDP Associates and Marketing.ie columnist Breandán O Broin has a new book out for Christmas titled Company of Words – which is subtitled “a working title with Words, from ...

Oyinkan Braithwaite – award-winning novelist and author of ‘Cursed Daughters’ – interrogates the repercussions of infidelity ...

The Hereward Community Rail Partnership (HCRP) has held what Greater Anglia describes as a "unique cultural event" involving poetry on a train.

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

Prince Charles and Spike Milligan were so close that he confided in Spike's son long after his favourite funnyman had died, saying what he really thought of Paul Burrell ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.