Locally, Song of Lawino (1966) by Okot p’Bitek is widely recognised as a major modern African epic poem or a long, dramatic ...

Local columnist Raymond Atkins explains irony as the gap between expectation and reality, outlining verbal, situational, and dramatic forms, and argues that recognizing irony fosters humility and awar ...

The "Mousetrap" scene in 'Hamlet', where Shakespeare’s play within a play is used to expose a king’s guilt. | Culture Club/GettyImages From cross-dressing disguises and fatal flaws to witches and ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

Gemma Chan, Mason Reeves and Channing Tatum in "Josephine" by Beth de Araújo, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. (Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute/Greta Zozula) Beth de ...

With elements of both poetry and memoir, “Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems” by Alan Botsford, straddles the boundaries of genre. Each poem takes the form of a dramatic interior monologue ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

This body transformation is totally insane—check out the before and after. White House tells Supreme Court it doesn’t care about the tariff money raised Kelly Clarkson Looks Incredible (and So ...

Danny Masterson’s estranged wife, Bijou Phillips, filed to remove the actor’s surname from their 11-year-old daughter’s name. The model, who filed for divorce from the actor in September 2023 after he ...