A 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate student from Hong Kong became the youngest winner of the National Poetry Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for poetry. Eric Yip ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Eminent Sindhi poet Allah Bux aka Dr Akash Ansari died on Saturday. He was 69. Police have opened a probe to dig out the facts behind his death apparently caused by a fire in his room. The poet ...

“She was the kind of poet who always responded to the moment,” the writer Edwidge Danticat, who also was born in Haiti, said in an interview. Danticat recalled that at one point while writing ...

Calling the next five years as an “unique opportunity” to realise ‘sabka vikas’ (development for all), she said, “The great Telugu poet and playwright Gurajada Apparao has said ‘A ...

Ireland has lost one of its leading literary figures following the death of the multiple award-winning poet, Michael Longley. The last survivor of the Belfast triumvirate of poets which also ...

The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children ...

The celebrated Sindhi poet Dr Allah Bux aka Akash Ansari, who died in a controversial house fire on Saturday in Hyderabad, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard, Shaikh Umar, in Badin ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Says the girl to the poet: “Your eyes are two blue TV screens that show two different views of the fight of your life with the dragons that threaten humanity. Your lips are like stars— they’re far ...

After a slew of executive orders came down from the Trump administration over the last few weeks, in Massachusetts this week, Governor Maura Healey issued one of her own, creating the position of a ...