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Ian McMillan's guests are the poets Don Paterson, Zena Edwards, and John McAuliffe who's celebrating fellow poet Michael Longley - and we also hear a new 'eartoon' on the origin of words for numbers, ...

Much has been said of his genius, so instead, I will share a personal anecdote from when I met the late director.

When I taught in Syracuse University’s English department ... It pours out, like so much falling rain, but the speaker of the poem knows the game is up: He feels the rain on the foliage.

Where I do disagree with Mr Hodgart, however, is in his choice to single out the apparent popularity of one writer, Carol Ann Duffy, among contemporary English departments. He is mistaken in his ...

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Sarojini Naidu wasn’t just India’s ‘Nightingale’. She was a fierce freedom fighter, a trusted leader, and India’s first ...

The spellbinding, sometimes brutally evocative lyrics of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, describes lynchings in the American South.