Gallant observed with the “cold eye” that Yeats recommended for writers, even when drawing on her own life in fiction.

Homer’s Iliad, one of the most celebrated and studied epic poems in history, has long resisted successful adaptation. While it has inspired countless modern novelists across diverse traditions, its ...

Dianne Lockhart was born in Kandy and grew up in Kurunegala, in idyllic surroundings, in the 1950s. Here she reminiscences about bringing up a leopard cub she named Poppaea. The rescue of this leopard ...

How to identify form in poetry Learn how how rhyme scheme and stanza length can be clues to a poem's form. How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from ...