PRECEDE: On the second Saturday afternoon of each month, spoken word echoes through the Woodend RSL as poets, musicians, and ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

How a reluctant musician made a punk-rock classic - IN FOCUS: Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut has influenced generations ...

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

An Alexander McQueen crucifix mask; Galliano-era Dior logomania; a humble Burberry fishing jacket: according to the world’s ...

A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are ...

As the pre-orders roll in for Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, speculation continues about the title.  The publisher's blurb would have ...

An adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's poem 'The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights' in which a vain and jealous tsaritza wants to have her stepdaughter killed because she has become ...

For many, the fact that the success of a song lyric tends to hinge upon on its accompanying music, the voices that sing it, and the performance itself means that it cannot be considered poetry.