Gnomes of Donegal - Frank McNally on William Allingham’s peculiar brand of Irishness
And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...
Looking back on poetry and how we weren’t averse to reading verse
Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...
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Love Prodigal
The title poem is among the book’s most evocative ... Save my favorite panties—/ the pink ones—for a sexier immortality or a lonely evening.” Similarly, “Body, Remember,” inspired ...
There’s no way this is going to be a straightforward ‘action epic,’ right?
While it may seem like an offbeat choice for Christopher Nolan to be adapting Homer's The Odyssey into a movie, it actually ...
Of great poets and cursed books
The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...
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Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar discuss their friendship and going on book tour together
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar, two authors who are also best friends on a driving tour of the Bay area.
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The Human Province
He blamed his unfinished poem on ‘a person on business from Porlock’. Who was this arch-interrupter? Joanna Kavenna goes looking for the person from Porlock.
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The super simple reason why typhoons are given names, and how they are named
In Chinese legend, Chang’e, wife of Yi (a tribal chief in ancient China), stole her husband's elixir of immortality, and fled to the moon together with the hare. They are said to be still living ...