Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

The playwright behind Standing at the Sky’s Edge returns with a thoughtful, affecting look at pregnancy and the trans ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...

As a long-time devotee of Desert Island Discs, I was tickled by the premise of Radio 4’s The Island, starring Stephen Mangan.

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

These iconic book lines and recognized by everyone, regardless of whether you've read the title, seen the movie adaptation, ...

We speak at length with Tariq Ali, Pakistani British historian, activist, filmmaker. He is an editor of the New Left Review ...