Literature

Featured Poem: The Glory by Edward Thomas
I’d like to begin the introduction to this week’s featured poem by wishing everyone a happy St. David’s Day, and…

Featured Poem: That Music Always Round Me by Walt Whitman
I have a confession to make: music is, and always has been, my first love in life. Reading comes a…

2010 Dylan Thomas Prize Announced
The competition is underway for the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, the world's top literary prize for young writers. The annual…

Les Soeurs Anglaises: Workshops and Courses
Ever fancied learning, or brushing up on, a skill in the French sunshine? Les Soeurs Anglaises run three and five…

Three Score and Ten: Charting lives through literature
Often you’ll hear people talk of a book as being “a book for an age” for the way it describes…

Featured Poem: The Tiger by William Blake
By now, New Year is becoming an increasingly fading memory (and so too, it’s likely, are the resolutions you vowed…

A Valentine’s Poem: Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
It’s that time of year again, when love is in the air (and in the windows of card shops, perhaps…

Henley’s ‘Invictus’ stars with Morgan Freeman
There can't be many films which would appeal to poetry lovers and rugby fans but that is what Clint Eastwood…

Writing Course with Penelope Shuttle: ‘Word and Self’
Adrienne Rich posed the question - ' Where does poetry come from?' and offered this answer: … how we glimpse…

Asda’s Big Read Campaign: Helping to reclassify the classics
There are some things in life that you can rely on, events and objects that stand as steadfast institutions, time…

Featured Poem: Pleasure by Charlotte Brontë
Over the last 18 months or so, one word has figured heavily in the press, on television screens and in…

TS Eliot Prize Winner: Philip Gross
With the Oscar nominations being annoucned later today, we know that the season of awards and prizes is fully upon…