It's time to send out the Christmas newsletter again this year. Sure, it could be the same old dry recitation of your family ...

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At the New Delhi World Book Fair 2025, six contemporary poets explore how words and visuals merge to reshape poetic expression.

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.

However, I sometimes think of a poem that tells the story of a woman ... was one of those early Ulster poets known as the Rhyming Weavers. They composed poetry to the rhythm of the hand loom ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

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This is the Kinahan Cartel's No 1 man in Ireland, Ross Browning, sporting a fresh, new look as he reinvents himself as a poet.