Beloved Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the first "influencer" to champion the Lake District and call for its ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

While we may feel overwhelmed and helpless as political machinations turn, Wordsworth’s wisdom is still relevant. We need to ...

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted.

The Supreme Court on Monday (March 3, 2025) asked how a poem by Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi, which plainly translates to the “suffering of injustice with love”, stirred the Gujarat Police ...

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.

Dublin poet and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82 in a nursing home in Clontarf in Dublin. Mr Ingoldsby, who was born in Malahide on August 25th, 1942, is survived by his ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

The legendary poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82. The popular author, who was a household name and a familiar figure on RTE television, died in a nursing home in ...

Reader Alert: if you are a Zionist, you will probably not want to read Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by the much-vilified and cancelled poet Mohammed El-Kurd. If you do read it ...

They do not care to reassure; they merely care to strike fear into hearts and feed the sort of pernicious despondency that encourages conflict. Hope is not a political currency worth trading.

He then rescinded that optimism on his 1971 masterpiece, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” an album whose jagged distortions seemed to reflect the despondency of the Nixon years. Though it wasn ...