Among all natural elements, rain has remained one of poetry’s most enduring muses. Across cultures, it symbolises grief and ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure throughout my lifetime – ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...

Arizona is home to sweeping mountain and desert vistas, gorgeous sunsets, the occasional haboob — and a lot of literary ...

How Bhakti poetry, Sufi courts, and manuscript cultures together shaped Hindi as a written language. A multilingual, material history of vernacular power—read more.

As winter settles in and the year winds down, there’s no better time to curl up with a book that speaks to the complexity and beauty of queer life. This season’s reading list spans ...

This anthology resurrects the 16th-century Mughal noble Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, celebrating his timeless poetry, a ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

Contributor Jim Schley reflects on the legacies of three Vermont poets and writers — David Huddle, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Baron Wormser — who died in October.

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

Wellwater is a poetry collection which explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value, addressing aging, housing and environmental and economic crises. Celebrating ...