This book review has been written by Nandita Bose. The Western literary canon that seems an indestructible pillar of the ...

In an email he sent a few days ago he had written, quite poignantly, “Had I another life I’d spend more time translating ...

While many teenagers are focused solely on passing exams and planning for life after school, Naledi Setzin spent her matric ...

Tree In the wind and sunlight, behold the ceaseless rippling waves of leaves. Beloved, the rippling waves of your saranchima* touch my tangled thoughts, unraveling worries like a song— is that how it ...

As a new memorial garden in Crumlin marking the legacy of Christy Brown opens, his nephew Ciarán DeBrún, along with Jim ...

The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

I saw lambent light within his eye. We stepped upon the grass: Just past the pack of chickweed that my sister said were ...

Award-winning children's environmental education advocate, former CBC journalist, ChariTree Foundation founder, and Canadian author Andrea Koehle Jones announces the release of ...

Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's 100th birthday is being marked by celebrations around the world – an appreciation of his importance to poetry and how his influence on the medium continues.

Reading is a solitary activity, not a lonely one. I was a shy kid who loved books in part because they felt like a form of ...

She popularised this idea in a bestseller of 2021, “Finding the Mother Tree”, and a series of TED Talks. Photograph: Panos ...

More than two centuries after the death of writer and lyricist Robert Burns, his words are still recited around the world on New Year's Eve. Auld Lang Syne might be the Scot's most famous poem, but he ...