A Miami poet discusses her Zip Ode poem about buying her own stolen bike, and how she views this as a quintessential Miami ...

The life of ancient Greek sage, philosopher and prophet Epimenides of Crete straddles history and myth, but some of his works ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

When it comes to healthy living, the nutrition part came fairly easily to me. But boy did I have a lot of excuses when it came to exercise. The weather was always too cold, too hot, too wet ...

Only fragments remain of the work of Sappho, a poet born around 650 B.C.E. on the Greek island of Lesbos, but they were more than enough to earn her an immortal place in literature. If you’re ...

The death of the poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby at the age of 82 has been confirmed by his family. He died in a nursing home in Clontarf, Co Dublin. The popular author was a familiar ...

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted.

Announcing the Eighth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us ...

Jon Stewart is calling out Elon Musk for dancing around a joint interview the tech billionaire originally agreed to, after a week of trading jabs. On Monday's episode of "The Daily Show," Stewart ...

Having finally been given the all-clear from leukaemia, Liz Bates thought she was safe and out of the woods. The gran had endured three years of gruelling treatment after being given just a 40 per ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Dublin poet and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82 in a nursing home in Clontarf in Dublin. Mr Ingoldsby, who was born in Malahide on August 25th, 1942, is survived by his ...