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Byline: Carol Rumens Renacuajos For Mia Tadpoles -- semi-quavers, quavers -- stray from the stave, assemble quivering, grow larger every day. The puddle's too small. They come ashore like sailors [...]

Byline: Tristram Fane SAUNDERS What are the poets up to? Watching birds and butterflies, as ever - but in unsettling ways. There's less swooning over birdsong, more flinching at 'the [...]

Byline: Ben Beaumont-Thomas Peter Sinfield, a co-founder of prog rockers King Crimson who went on to a successful pop songwriting career for artists such as Céline Dion, has died aged [...]

While I agree that clarity about the climate crisis can sometimes be 'lost in a blizzard of scientific data', poetry is surely not the only, and perhaps not even the [...]

Byline: Joe Pinkstone SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT PEOPLE prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more 'beautiful' and easier to understand, a study has found. The Bard's sonnets, as well as [...]

Byline: STEFANI DIAS Prepare for an evening of powerful poetry and personal storytelling with California's current Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on Thursday at Beale Memorial Library. This event with Harrick [...]

Byline: Aida Edemariam This time last year, Mosab Abu Toha was standing in a queue waiting to pass a checkpoint. He had already made the difficult decision to tell his [...]

Byline: Editorial Poetry has a big debt to nature, its muse and source of metaphor for centuries. As the UN climate conference begins, it is time to pay it back. [...]

Lahore -- Pakistanis mark Iqbal Day to remember legendary philosopher and national poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal with tributes. As the South Asian nation observed public holiday on Iqbal Day, remembering [...]

Byline: Omar Hamed Beato in Mosul As the sun sets over the streets of Mosul in northern Iraq, a group of young people gather in the basement of the Mosul [...]

Byline: Andrew Pulver Star Rating: 3 stars There's a steepled-fingers argument to be had about whether live-event or gallery movies can ever compare to the thrill of seeing things for [...]

Byline: Lanre Bakare A London poet has accused the bestselling author Coco Mellors of basing one of her characters on him, saying the experience has been 'harmful' and led to [...]

Dr Nisar Turabi is a literary legend whose sheen has brightened the horizon of creativity proclivity and critical sublimity. He is a bilingual poet. His Punjabi lyres remind us the [...]

Born into a family that had been relocated to Manitoba after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miki fought for compensation for the hardships – emotional and financial – experienced by the British Columbians who lost their homes because they were deemed ‘enemy aliens’, The cruel circumstances of Roy Miki’s birth set his lifelong path. Born to parents in forced internal exile, he spent more than a decade of his life fighting for compensation [...]

CHARLES GORER, who has died aged 88, had a successful career in the Army and in the security industry before pursuing a long-held ambition to become a poet. David Charles […]

Byline: Cade Higgins Oct. 29LEIPSIC A fire broke out at Leipsic's POET Bioprocessing on Oct. 26. According to POET media members, team members were alerted to a fire in the [...]

Byline: Carol Rumens Two poems from At the Dimensional Border In our battle to be rational, we posit, based on three points, a plane, and say it extends -- not [...]

Serena Hotels, hosted a Mushaira 'Mehfil-e-Sukhan' event, bringing together some of Pakistan's most esteemed poets. The gathering celebrated under Serena Hotels' Cultural Diplomacy Initiative was a tribute to the richness [...]

Byline: Ella Creamer A new bronze sculpture of the English Romantic poet John Keats will be unveiled next week, close to his birthplace in Moorgate in the City of London. [...]

Byline: Brian Sandford Rhyme Time Poetry Can Pay Through December, New Mexico schools are invited to hold contests to identify their best and brightest poets, with winners advancing to a [...]

Shamshad Abdullaev's very name was a confluence of cultures. A Persian first name ('a pine-like tree'), an Arabic last name ('A servant of God'), and a Slavic 'ev' ending that [...]

Byline: Sana Goyal In this haunting and hypnotic first novel from the award-winning poet, life imitates art and art imitates life. Set between London, Paris and the Amazon rainforest, it's [...]