Entertainment ‘I want people to read my poems and think ‘maybe I do like poetry’' - Siobhán Flynn, winner of the 2025 Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry David Roy chats to Dublin poet ...

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Mississippi's 2025 Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest.Serving on today's panel of Judges are poet, short story writer, prince Scholar and instructor of English at Jackson State University, C Liegh ...

Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.

Johnny Tillotson, the chart-topping singer behind the Sixties hit "Poetry in Motion," has died at the age of 86.

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Seamus Heaney Fellow, Fiona Benson, has chosen her shortlist of four for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, and commended a further eight poems. One of the most prestigious prizes in the world for ...

After the fall of Kabul in 2021, poetry has helped women communicate the devastation – from the initial chaos, violence and anxiety about the takeover to the deep isolation, fear, deprivation, and ...

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Only a god or an algorithm would presume to list the best poetry collections published in 2023, but here are some of the most exciting books one mortal among many had the good fortune to read this ...