Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, Oxford University. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First ...

Robert Nye has been much praised, even adulated, for his novels. I can also recommend his poems: ‘a heron stands/like a sickle dipped in feathers’. This luckily occurs twice in the collection – it’s ...

Alice Oswald withdrew from the shortlist of the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry because of a new sponsor, Aurum. Aurum is "a hedge fund investment specialist" — not a poet’s poet, but a hedge fund ...

WESTPORT Library is hosting a month-long exhibition of poems by the children of Gaza, beginning with a launch on Saturday, February 15, at noon.

Westport Library is hosting a month-long exhibition of poems by the children of Gaza. The exhibition will be launched at 12 ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Foundry Fest, a “Not Dead Yet!” tribute to Tom Lehrer, gospel ...

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