Quetta is a city of obituaries. When I first began working as a journalist in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, a tragic incident took place at the city’s Civil Hospital that is still seared into my ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

November stands as a quiet bridge between autumn’s golden farewell and winter’s silver silence. It is a month of reflection, change, and acceptance - where nature softens its colours and prepares for ...

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...

Of Flanders and France in a storm of pains. To the mellifluous voice of a far-off song, They have gone on a journey of ages long. They have left behind their earthly name, And their earthly body, to ...

A single missing word in the 1902 poem sparks a deeper look at rhythm, dialect and longing Sea-Fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

Mother's Day is a special occasion. It is a time to appreciate mothers. The article provides a collection of 30 heartwarming poems. These poems express love and gratitude. They capture the essence of ...

Four children's books have been published with translations in the Noongar-Menang and Hazaragi languages. Students from Mount Barker Community College in Western Australia's south illustrated the ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...