Poetry cornered
Goodbye, sweet Calliope, farewell Erato? In a consumerist world where speed and image rule, poetry's emotional meanings are being lost. Neil McBride muses, partly through verse, on the future of this...
Goodbye, sweet Calliope, farewell Erato? In a consumerist world where speed and image rule, poetry's emotional meanings are being lost. Neil McBride muses, partly through verse, on the future of this...
From satirical novels to US sitcoms and cop shows, academics have proved to be rich source material across many genres. Four writers argue the case for who can claim to be fiction’s greatest scholar
Staff and students at the troubled Southampton Institute are to benefit from a steady stream of literary enlightenment, courtesy of the institute's new poet in residence, Julia Copus. In the lead-up...
With academics feeling the strain from higher workloads, the days when scholars had time to write novels or run businesses seem increasingly distant. Lincoln Allison suggests that universities have...
Poetry has fallen victim to a culture that dismisses anything 'difficult' as elitist. But students should delight in the difficult - it can be exciting, argues Ruth Padel. "We are not interested,"...
Duncan Wu considers how the quiet dignity of a veteran actress creates an impressive drama
Poetic licence denied "What can one do?" Olwyn Hughes once asked. "Should one just let them quote and let the myths get wilder and wilder - or should one try to correct them, as I have done?" What is...
As higher education minister in the Blair government, Alan Johnson steered plans for top-up fees of £3,000 through Parliament. As he returns to the sector in a new role, the former postman talks to...
As part of its 80th anniversary celebrations, Faber and Faber has launched 52 Poems, a web application that will offer a weekly poetry showcase featuring new voices as well as much-loved classics.
Commuters taking the 8.46 Valley Line service from Cardiff Central to Treforest had something more than the morning paper to entertain them on their way to work. Three poets from the University of...
Prometheus is a new magazine with an ambitious aim - to provide deep coverage of the arts, sciences and humanities and to become a forum for debates that will bridge C. P. Snow's famous two cultures...
Louise Glück’s timeless essays about poetry are piquant declarations, writes David Gewanter
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
Power and Glory - The Bible in English
Power and Glory - The Bible in English