Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry ...

The study, published today in Critical Quarterly, argues that the tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a ...

“His artistry is not only vivid in terms of imagery, but also merges surreal and conceptual elements to honour his diasporic ...

The nub of being poet laureate seems to be being asked what the point is of being poet laureate’ - THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ...

In a world that rarely slows down, where the next trend is already outdated and every news cycle feels apocalyptic, there’s a ...

David McLoghlin, Kerry Hardie and Mary O’Malley have been shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Poetry Prize, Ireland’s most ...

Only by writing could the acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li grapple with the suicides of her two sons. But her new book is no ...

The band members, Satyaki Banerjee, an eminent folk artist and music composer, Nabamita, Rajarshi, Dibyokamal, Bumpy and Premjit, were introduced to the audience by Nabarun Bose who also curated the e ...

The author of ‘Dark Renaissance’ on how he arrived at New Historicism, his fascination with Shakespeare and The Bard’s ...

At the Guggenheim, Johnson offers an epic journey rooted in his own experience as a human cast into the world who, through ...

Even as his style has become even more ornate, the subjects he’s been tackling feel increasingly political. See: his latest, The Phoenician Scheme.