It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...

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Her home in the Lebanese capital saw lively gatherings, attended by Darwish and other intellectuals (including the famous Syrian poet Adonis), where they listened ... In Exil II, Chamekh conjured up ...

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor. When I think ...

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A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has ... Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford.

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.