Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Still, not everyone in the poetry world appreciated the win: The Telegraph bluntly declared that the award went to “the wrong man,” and The Times called out the judges for going “back to ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

All I really wanted to do was put my work over and give a really good reading.” Still, not everyone in the poetry world appreciated the win: The Telegraph bluntly declared that the award went to “the ...

Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, one of the world’s most prestigious poetry awards. Gizzi’s book “Fierce ...

Dorothy Porter in the 2000s: “She simply revelled in being outrageous in her work, and I loved her for it,” writes her sister, Josie McSkimming. She told another journalist that “poetry can ...

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed Belfast-born poet Michael Longley, who has died at the age of 85. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said he regarded him "as a peerless poet" and ...

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for Wales", an author has said. Jeff Towns, who wrote Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas ...

Bob Dylan has a number of links to Dylan Thomas, said author Jeff Towns Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for ...

When much of the work churned out by poets laureate is glib or forgettable, why do we need a poet at an inauguration, or a coronation? Perhaps it’s because we hope for words that act as signpost ...

One of modern poetry’s great symbolic and prophetic moments came in 1912, when Ezra Pound challenged Lascelles Abercrombie to a duel. Upset at the literary shenanigans of younger writers (as well as ...