It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent in the town of Hibbing in the upper Midwest US state of Minnesota - somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with long dark winters, ...

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and a major exponent of romantic ...

The Indian and Irish traditions share a poetic and mystical sensibility, demonstrating that the pursuit of spiritual wisdom and artistic expression knows no boundaries.

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...

Baylor University will host a premier American literary event of contemporary poetry – the 31st annual Beall Poetry Festival, ...

The Russian author’s Nobel Prize lecture contains an urgent message for contemporary audiences. Get our guide to the day’s biggest news and ideas, delivered to your inbox every weekday and Sunday ...

By Philippa TracyLove After Love is also the title of a poem by Nobel Prize-winning writer Derek Walcott. It is a poem about recovering from heartbreak and finding happiness again. The break-up in the ...

The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun of China, who earned the field’s highest honour for ...

Liu, 68, becomes the 54th laureate of the prize, considered akin to a Nobel in the field of architecture ... (So) you have to provide poetry." Liu is known for creating public areas in highly ...