During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Does contemporary poetry all sound the same to you? Is it a problem with the way poets read it on the radio, with the voice that gives the end of each line an Australian-style non-questioning question ...

Ġorġ Borg is one of Malta’s best exponents of all styles of literature. Essentially, he is a poet, and his poetry is not only his cheval de bataille, but also his non plus ultra in sentiment, ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

The title of the book “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women Two Worlds” suggests a sense of foreboding. But for the two poets in the book, Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman, those times — in the ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Since his novel Johnno was published in 1975 David Malouf has shaped and reflected Australian society ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

Is there a line between poem and song? Since poetry may have grown out of song, it is one of our oldest art forms. Brian Laidlaw and friends will give a contemporary feel to the cross-pollination of ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of two essays responding to Calvin Bedient’s “Against Conceptualism.” Read Rachel Galvin’s response here. These models . . . are so concerned with the work being done in the ...