Poems and songwriting go hand in hand, so it's no wonder musicians are able to pen a great piece of literature. Here we count down five of the best.

A section of Address to the Town-Council of Edinburgh by famous poet Allan Ramsay was discovered by the Clackmannanshire ...

If any generalisations can be made of Australian poetry, one of them might be that Australia is no country for old poets. It ...

A COLLECTION of poems from a renowned Worcester writer has been returned to print by his grandson. Harold F Bradley’s poems have recently ...

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a poignant childhood memoir, a tribute to Subhas Chandra Bose first published in 1946, and a collection of poems on Indian cities ...

The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, given that it was a country with a long history of resistance ...

In Guy Gavriel Kay’s new novel, Written on the Dark, there is a segment where the powerful but ruthless Duke de Barratin is ...

Off the Malls Tours and the Rainbow History Project join forces for a new walking tour celebrating Washington D.C.'s Black queer legacy.

In his book on the Chinese Tang-era poet Du Fu, Wood takes the reader on a journey through China's past and present and ...

What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts ...

David Roy chats to top comedian Frank Skinner about why his only Irish show of the year will be a poetry-centric event at Seamus Heaney HomePlace ...