A series of Mondays in 2025 saw me carry a box of creative writing prompts, balanced like a baby on my hip, and push one palm against hospital double doors leading to an oncology and haematology day ...

Romaine Washington writes about how a poem by poet-activist Claude McKay traveled decades to inspire the Black Panther Party.

Among all her poems, Remembrance (1845) stands out as a direct ancestor of Wuthering Heights. The speaker mourns a lover lost for “15 wild Decembers”. It is full of imagery of frozen graves and icy ...

William Wordsworth's "Quote of the Day" highlights the profound value of "little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and ...

Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

A sharp, funny and engaging autobiography from one of the towering literary figures of our age Read an exclusive extract here Margaret Atwood didn’t want to write a literary memoir. She worried it ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the afternoon breezes are doing their best to hold off the sure-to-come heat here in Tucson. Ahh, spring! What better time to rediscover poetry … and ...