His affair with Milena Jesenská, more than eventful enough for a downbeat date movie, is exceptionally well told here; you can almost feel Stach’s hands trembling with exasperation as he is obliged to ...

The album also features performances by “pianistic poet” Jeanne-Minette Cilliers ... Serenade (Composer: Franz Schubert and Karl Wine, Lyrics: Ludwig Rellstab and Karl Wine, Performers ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

Anthony Lane, in “The Disappearing Poet” I was on my way out of the Bryn Mawr-Wellesley ... Although the back cover was detached, the book was full of information and photos from a time when Franz ...

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

But people really do make pronouncements like that about literature. Someone I met a few years ago, a big poetry person, just could not believe that an adult would spend years of his life thinking ...

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...

Azealia Banks has taken to X to slam the Glastonbury line-up, saying that the festival is “kinda cooked”. The festival will return to Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, from June 25 to 29 ...

Taylor Swift doesn’t kiss and tell — but the lyrics of her new album The Tortured Poets Department may offer fans some insight into her relationship with Matty Healy. On Tortured Poets ...

On April 19, the “Fortnight” singer dropped her new album The Tortured Poets Department (and a double album at 2 a.m.) and fans believe she has a few lyrics about the Kansas City Chiefs ...