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In their different ways, these three poets demonstrate how to transform everyday realities into art.
Hessom Razavi – an ophthalmologist and poet – explains the workings and wonder of the eye, and the range of emotions he experiences treating diseases caused by modern life or without a cure.
Poets take us outside ourselves. In their transmission of atypical experiences, they teach us empathy and compassion.
Critics have long wrestled with the question of how artists and writers influence each other. For Luke Johnson, an encounter with a painting took him in a wholly unexpected direction.
Anne Carson’s playful new book, Wrong Norma, meaningfully makes apparently random connections – and the result is compelling.
Gradually, with more life experience, I have gained perspective and poetic nerve.
For poet Robert Adamson, the natural world offered a form of deliverance.
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Writers have long rhapsodised about real estate – or the difficulty acquiring it – but contemporary authors are asking awkward questions about the inequities of our property obsession.
A subtle and thoughtful show, full of shimmering connections that put Blake back in touch with European art figures and influences.
Haiku poems chart flowers appearing earlier and species retreating to the margins.
To ask whether 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem is a collection of poems or a single long poem is to step through the looking glass.
‘Wabi’ and ‘sabi’ are Japanese words with long histories, but they are rarely used together in the way Western designers have come to use the term.
There is nothing to lose and plenty to gain in teaching Swift’s Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets together. There’s no dumbing-down, and no need for reductive assertions about who is “better”.
In Hindu devotional poetry, love directed toward Vishnu can take many forms, including service, maternal adoration and the intense intimacy of lovers.
These moving poems are a reminder that on Valentine’s Day, it’s OK to celebrate a broader definition of love.
Literary critics and scholars need to take poetry that originated on social media more seriously.
Reading Wilson’s Iliad, one senses something of the chant of Homer’s verse, even through the written word.
In her prose and her poetry, Sara M. Saleh renders unique the ways people resist, transcend, adapt, make the best of things, compromise, endure, and lose hope and faith.
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