A flower named for Nottingham is getting a helping hand to flourish after years of decline. The Nottingham crocus is believed ...

Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian Emma Donoghue is best known for her 2010 ...

Journalist John Suchet and national treasure Pam Ayres are set to feature at the Boswell Book Festival which takes place at Dumfries House from May 9 to 11.

The event also features two highly-anticipated talks based on previously unpublished records of World War One from local historians ... about her legendary life in poems. Moving testimonies ...

Craiglockhart Hospital treated many patients for shell shock during the World War One. The best known were the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The poets became famous for the poems that ...

While World War One poets like Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon's work is widely read, other soldiers in the trenches were ...

Peter Mackay of the University of St Andrews explores poetry and first-hand accounts from the war to find out. The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

“The children had to sing songs, read poems, cut out some pigeons and stick them on the windows. My task was to shoot it all and publish it with hashtags … so that the public got the ...