Award-winning author Morgan Christie discusses the process of drawing inspiration from poetry to write a picture book.

His first collection was a poignant tribute to the London community in which he grew up; his second is about partying. What’s behind the Nigerian-British author’s change of tune?

The late James Earl Jones previously opened up about living with a stutter and how he spent several 'mute years' as a kid ...

How would an official poet laureate “speak” to the spoken word, slam or hip-hop communities, or to bush poets, or to ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and ...

The ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ poet shares the book that surprised her the most, the best thing a reader ever said to ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in ...

Strange Scaffold’s newly released FPS I Am Your Beast is very fun for quite a few reasons, but chief among them is a deep appreciation for the poetry of good videogame violence. I’m not using the big ...

The literary world often seems to stand apart from the working class, but poets like Fish are keeping the tradition of ...

Jin, for the photoshoot, experimented with different looks. He wore black, red, beige, white and rust-coloured outfits.