The cover artwork for Deryn Rees-Jones’s new book of poetic impressionism is fitting: Fidan Nazimqizi’s multi-framed photographic collage, showing a blurred female figure against a backdrop of wallpap...

Pastoral Three weeks alone and all I can read are these backwoods American poets with their figs and windfall peaches and their one good chair of four legs from which they observe the changing yaw o...

The Grocer ‘the Kingdom of God cometh not with observation’ (James Joyce to Lady Gregory) The grocer’s hair is parted like a feather by two swift brushes and a dab of brilliantine.

‘Them animals is disgusting’ In London Zoo is a large flat painted Disneyesque lion sporting a circular hole cut where the face ought to be.

The latest anthology of poetry from Leeds Irish Health and Homes is defined most clearly by its obvious sincerity.

God's Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Rory McEwen’s work is not only less concerned with conventional ideas of beauty, it lacks any obvious desire to please...

inventory of aunties ageing aunty with milky eyes that can barely make out the lights in the gurdwara hall; aunty with laugh that peels down southall broadway like cheap rhinestones off a suit; new a...

Ben Wilkinson on the current state of reviewing culture

Mum Falls Tall What did you look like to him?

The 2026 judging panel for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, has been announced

Despite a recent inquiry and the jailing of a gang of Asian men, the northern city remains a focal point for child sexual exploitation

I haven’t read the best-selling book on which director Marianne Elliott’s eponymous new film is based, though I have it on solid, if anecdotal, authority that the representation is a fair one.

Brass For us, there were journeys of fine weather between the walled towns.