While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

The Monitor’s film critic offers his highest rating to “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” which pulses with humor as it explores ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

From a historical ballad in Assam to historical personalities from Modern Indian history and other topics — check your ...

That, allegedly, was the beginning of the teenage death ballad. After that, songwriters capitalized on the popularity of this new style of song and began churning them out. Themes include car ...

Marnie is a lifelong Canadian at heart. I don’t know why it took us so long to do this massively famous ballad everywhere in the world from a Canadian artist. GM: What is interesting when I ...

The Beatles‘ “Lovely Rita” is one of their most whimsical songs. Interestingly, a British Invasion star was there when the Fab Four recorded the track. The star in question explained how she ...

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean ...