'Time froze when I was told my 17-year-old son was dead - the world was no longer a place I wanted to be'
Crystal Owen's son Harvey said he loved her - hours later he was killed in a car crash in Eryri and now she is calling for a ...
97 Minutes With Frederick Seidel, the ‘Darth Vader of American Poetry’
Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...
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Musical Polymath Rufus Wainwright Perfects the Art of Darkness on 'Dream Requiem'
Rufus Wainwright opened up on TalkShopLive about the unique Dream Requiem project, answered fans’ real-time questions about ...
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‘Make every word count’ — Roy Peter Clark discusses the power of short writing
We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft ...
The politics and poetry of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa: How an ancient epic shapes Indian culture and enforces inequality in modern India
Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...
Now in his 70s, he can still recall, all these years later, the night they beat Bobby Orr
I track down Doug at his home in Petawawa in eastern Ontario. All these years later, he can still recall, in detail, the ...
Paul Theroux: ‘The business of identity, cultural appropriation and pronouns harms the imagination’
The travel writer and novelist on ignoring woke politics, smoking opium in Afghanistan and the book that broke his marriage ...
Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Michael Longley: ‘One of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced’
Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced, and it has long been my belief that his work is of the level that would be befitting of a Nobel Prize ...
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Newly discovered poems show Virginia Woolf as a fun aunt
Some breaking news in the world of 20th century ... other mention of these poems. Oliver says she thinks they were missed by other researchers "because people are not necessarily looking in ...
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WW1: Has poetry distorted our view of the war?
When we think of World ... It’s not the role of English to give a wider and balanced picture of the war, although OCR have set poems that offer different responses to the war. WW1: Did the ...
The giant machine for plagiarism is now complaining that it has been plagiarised. Oh, the irony
As the public face of the company that makes ChatGPT, and which has thereby become synonymous with this understanding of AI, ...