A new play and a poetry collection insist on the relevance of a prime minister who died for championing peace.

"It's just having the courage to be vulnerable. It's also a revelatory process of writing. It’s self-revealing to a degree." ...

The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.) ...

Martín Espada transforms cemetery lizards into powerful metaphors for American imperialism in his latest collection.

Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ...

Cincinnati collections house books bound in human skin. The books gained the attention of John Hancock and George Washington.

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

Michael Lally is an American-born poet, a former actor, a jazz musician, an activist, and an organizer. He was born in New Jersey in an Irish-American family.

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

Keiko Bruce, a year 13 student from One Tree Hill College in Auckland, is the winner of the 2025 National Schools Poetry Award. Her poem ‘Guilt Tank’ reflects on the words we frequently don’t say.