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More than two centuries had fallen between the mouth of the speaker and the ear of the listener, but somehow, the poem still bound them together

The opening pages of Micah Thorp's Aegolius Creek (Type Eighteen Books) announce a writer unafraid to frame his contemporary fiction in biblical fire and

What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge! Here to...

An album, a book, an exhibition

Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

In Bless Me Father, his new memoir, the Dexys leader reflects on his Irish lineage, difficult relationship with his father, music success, addiction and more

The stone suits the poetry. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. I think poetry suits stone, more than it suits paper...

The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality

Poet Nithy Kasa speaks with host Seán Hewitt about carrying two countries, line breaks, and the taboo of black female sexuality in Congolese culture. Nithy reads her poem “My People Dance by Their Hips” and C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Ithaka.”