Advocating for the poor was just one layer of Gonne’s exceptional range of activism. Her life and career are the focus of a ...

Charles Dickens, George Orwell and Sylvia Plath will all disappear from the HSC English syllabus in NSW, but their ...

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become ...

I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank ...

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Yeats Winter School; Strokestown International Poetry Competition ...

There was nothing that looked unusual about the events taking place. Thinking about his relationship with his brother over the last few decades of his life while sitting shiva, Mendelson alluded to ...

His words, woven with the fervour of rebellion and the tenderness of love, have left an indelible mark on the nation's literary landscape. His debut collection, "Je Jole Agun Jole", ignited the ...

In the early years of the 20th century, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats experimented with automatic ...

It contains a full spectrum of poetry from familiar favourites to exciting contemporary voices. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, A. A. Milne and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Roger McGough, ...

A 1903 poem perfectly capturing the terror and tedium of war has made the 28 Years Later teaser a sensation. What makes it so ...

Nikki Giovanni, an iconic poet and influential voice in the Black arts movement, passed away on December 9 at 81 after battling cancer for the third time. Known for her groundbreaking 1968 ...

Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work 'Gitanjali'. His ...