Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

Determined not to burden his family, a 73-year-old man has chosen to live out his remaining years alone in a modest hut in ...

Based on his 2017 short collection of poems The Broken Men Chapbook, Word N Sound co-founder and poet Thabiso Mohare aimed to ...

"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

As our population ages, writers are offering books that look at what aging means and ways to live full lives even with the physical limitations that even the healthiest seniors experience. Today we ...