Seamus Heaney matters, perhaps even more than he should, to many who are interested in poetry, in Ireland, or in both. For many critics the two blur. Of North, for example, Conor Cruise O’Brien said, ...

The much-anticipated Poetry Africa Festival starts on Monday at the Seabrooke’s Theatre in Durban. Organised by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, this year’s hybrid ...

What’s the future for culture in Afghanistan? This week on The Cultural Frontline, Anu Anand hears from the young poets expressing the hopes and fears of their generation. American film director ...

Given all the pianists out there who have been dubbed “poets of the keyboard”, the phrase has become a little tiresome. But its use is justified when applied to a musician of the calibre of ...

For centuries, Pashtun women have traded stories, feelings and life wisdom in the form of two-line oral poems called landays. Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet herself, traveled to Afghanistan to ...