A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

The album saw Harvey fully embrace her poetic influences, notably on the title track, as well as the opening song ‘Angelene’, which took inspiration from a very specific, meta, poem from the world of ...

As with his body, so with his poem. In his clever, wide-ranging book, Orlando Reade shows how Milton’s great epic has been ...

Teachers can support students in reading novels by front-loading the contextual information they need to make sense of the ...

From talks of Colin Farrell's alleged inspirations from The Sopranos to a common connection between The Penguin, the two ...

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 ...

Dr. Refaat Alareer, a martyr poet from Gaza, transformed his death into a defiant call for justice, demanding the world ...

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

Nearly 300 people entered the Herald purple prize for poetry, sending odes of love or hate about the invasive species that ...

Vinod Kumar Shukla, a Sphinx of contemporary Hindi literature, leaves readers bemused with his obscure yet admired writings.

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

Diwali, celebrated on October 31 this year, symbolises the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. The festival ...