Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Boston-born, Richmond-raised Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatest writers of all time and his name is one that inspires images of dark, atmospheric plots, haunting characters and soul-gripping ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Here are six snippets that get you started on creating your very own Singapore poetry canon. “I want to taste sharp the petai ...

Poetry and music have always gone hand in hand, going back thousands of years prior to the advent of popular music ... the song had come about as a result of a short story by the legendary American ...

The shortlist of poems for the first New Irish Writing awards: To be eligible for next year’s awards, entrants must be Irish ...

Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

Since social media users frequently scroll through their feeds, many Instagram poetry are created to quickly grab readers' attention. Because of this, poetry may now be read by a wider audience than ...