UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. Since then, it has been celebrated every year and recognized by those who value ...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot holdMere anarchy is loosed upon the world……The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.- The Second Coming, a poem by W.B. Yeats ...

And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...

The Indian and Irish traditions share a poetic and mystical sensibility, demonstrating that the pursuit of spiritual wisdom and artistic expression knows no boundaries.

Jean Stimmell is a retired stone mason and psychotherapist living in Northwood. He blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com and ...

I am reminded of “The Second Coming,” a well-known poem by W.B. Yeats, written in very unsettled times, soon after the end of World War I. It describes a mysterious and powerful alternative to ...

American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness" ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Poem has announced its appointment as the social media agency for McCain’s Masterbrand portfolio in Australia and New Zealand. This exciting new partnership will see Poem develop and execute ...

Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague ... and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste ...

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn't hold in the case of playwright ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...