John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...
A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.
It was like a poetry festival at the USC (Cathedral) Hall, Abeokuta, Ogun State, last weekend, as poets and students across the state converged to commemorate the 2024 Cross Country Poetry Celebration ...
Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right ... Cromwell and Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” That lofty pedigree is surely part ...
When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...
I’d listened to my father talk ‘bout days of World War II. And how he served his country. He wore the Navy Blue.
I try to carry on as normal, but this has completely upturned the foundation of my life - everything I thought was real. What ...
The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...
He thought back to the year 1952, when Mustafa was studying for his final exams for his master’s degree in English literature ...
An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...
Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?
Ghayath Almadhoun writes a transformative love poem as the beloved and the lover negotiate minefields and soldiers, Adorno, and a collapsing Tower of Babel.