George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and ...

The Shark Nursery' is a one-of-a-kind book, filled with achingly beautiful poems that show a true artist at her absolute peak ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Wild Chase;” “Dreams of Love” — whereas Chopin avoided titles. Thomas Wentworth Higginson wished titles on Emily Dickinson’s ...

Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds.

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and ...

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. I thought that love would ...

Rising of 1916 against British rule in Ireland has both political and literary significance. It marked one of the foundational moments in European history that led to the liberation of the Irish state ...

The global acclaim for Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, rests mainly on its call for a ...

This year, with the inaugural Blackwell’s Short Story Prize, Cherwell aimed to reconnect with its roots as a literary ...

"The Normal Heart" is a largely autobiographical play written by Larry Kramer, centering on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic ...