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The 2024 play at the National Theatre that put writer Beth Steel squarely centre-stage has now received a West End transfer.
When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...
This year, the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) is excited to welcome its new class of mentees for its fifth annual mentorship program, which will run until August 31, 2025.
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.
Each of Steel's characters nurses a secret sadness. Sinead Matthews' bride-to-be is subdued. Back in the Eighties, her miner ...
The playwright Beth Steel has said she doesn’t just want to write “grim up-north” dramas, and her latest work Till the Stars ...
A passage from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, now widely known online as the fig tree metaphor, has become a rallying cry for ...
Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.
The album, out on 7/11 from Blue LLama Records interweaves classic poetry with timeless music. We spoke with Harris about the ...
The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...
On a quiet weekday afternoon, Flint-based poet Vivian Kao can often be found walking through Buckham Gallery with a clipboard ...
Ted met Sylvia Plath at Cambridge University. At that time, Ted’s parents had become firmly ensconced at their home in ...