What is it about rage that makes it a necessary emotion? A cleansing, fierce, tumultuous necessity? Temper is capricious, it could even be peevish. Anger is, well, anger; even the word seems more ...

A poem written by a Ukrainian soldier, who is fighting the Russian invasion, has been translated into about 10 languages in just one week, Ukraine’s Ministry of foreign affairs said on Thursday. The ...

“They’ve already sent a mother who midwifed her daughter’s abortion to jail. / I don’t say this to my friends as we tour a colonial mansion. I’d ruin the day.” So writes poet Jennifer Martelli in her ...

Vicki Grace Boguszewski (the Poet, Jah Love) is the lead poet at the Key West Poetry Guild. Below is her take on poems that ...

The front cover of Koleka Putuma’s debut poetry anthology, Collective Amnesia, reveals itself in layers. At first glance, it is a black-and-white image: a barefoot black woman, dressed in black and ...

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan - love. "Like a ...

The debut by Lasänma (Mariah MacDonald), Spruce to cedar (Brick, 112 pages, $24), is a narrative meditation on the question of belonging and survival in a colonial context. Set in Yukon, the Northwest ...

THE generally ecstatic reviews of Mark Ford's poetry have likened him to T S Eliot or Philip Larkin, recognising in Ford the modernist gift for elegant crisis. Ford's peculiar twist on this style is ...

The police officer looks at you with a jolly grin, holding a rye bread sandwich. He has the proverbial map of Ireland on his face and the words above his smiling expression underline this point: “You ...