The poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects The Cultural Frontline - Roger Robinson: Finding Paradise in Poetry. Presented by Tina Daheley. And Daljit reads from his Poetry ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Poet Kenneth Steven writes on the remote islands of St Kilda, where the community is only a distant memory echoed in the sound of seabirds. This is an island far out in the ocean. 'To make the sea ...

Photo courtesy of FT The Galle Literary Festival took place in the heart of Galle’s fort, inviting diverse voices in poetry ...

Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

The Brixton-based charity has run programmes including, Mandem, Lets Talk, helping young boys to express themselves through ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Whittier Street is tied to John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker poet. And Byron Street honors British peer and Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Eventually, the perched neighborhood ...

The University of Exeter put a trigger warning on two classic pieces of ancient Greek literature, Homer’s “The Iliad” and ...