This column has long wanted to provide some poetic thoughts about clocks and watches and their contribution to the passage of ...

We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over ...

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

A remarkable manuscript discovered in Rome has brought to light a rare early copy of Cædmon's Hymn, widely considered the oldest known poem in the English language. Dating to the early ninth century, ...

Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The ...

These are among the new titles with local themes or released by local writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names: ...

Put up or shut up seems to the message Andrew Left, the famous short seller, is sending to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Left, who has been charged with fraud by the Department of Justice ...

Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis brought an international aura to modern Greek poetry, by being a master at saying a lot with ...

It’s springtime and literary fiction is quite literally in vogue this season, making a neat counterpoint to the sheer volume ...

Declared a national living treasure in 1997, he wrote poetry and short stories but was best known for his nine novels, ...

Belfast Book Festival is back with a host of events bringing together the best in poetry, fiction and talks from big names such as Jan Carson and comedian Sara Pascoe. This is the festival's 16th year ...

Eight letters that John Keats penned to his fiancée before his untimely death are “the literary find of a lifetime” ...