Clearly, Harvey’s song, which focuses on a sex worker yearning for true love, does not share many common themes with ... incredibly inspirational figures in her own writing. However, her ability to ...

She settled on the myth of Pygmalion, the 2,000-year-old plotpoint from Ovid’s poem “Metamorphoses,” in which an artist falls ...

It’s 8am in the morning in San Francisco and the 82-year-old Isabel Allende has already received two emails from readers asking for advice. “People write to me all the time saying they have diaries ...

KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally ... In 2022, her chapbook ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry professionals.

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?