Women writers dominate the fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards, which organisers said showcase the “dazzling variety” of work being produced. The awards, presented by The Saltire ...

Taylor Swift’s latest record, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ (AP ... people who turn up in A&E with unexploded Second World War bombs inexplicably lodged in their intestinal passages ...

It all began in June 1797, when Coleridge summoned the Wordsworths from their retreat at Racedown Lodge, deep in remotest Dorset ... reversals of massacre and war that ensued. By the mid-1790s, many ...

Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

With over 40 armed conflicts now taking place around the world, the costs of warfare are immense and continue to mount with ...

His new book of poetry, "Forest of Noise," completed over the last year of war, begins with these words. "Every child in Gaza is me. Every mother and father is me. Every house is my heart.

A writer and poet who was a trailblazer for lesbian visibility and acceptance is to be honoured with a statue. Sylvia Townsend Warner lived in Dorset with her partner, poet Valentine Ackland ...

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called North Korean involvement in Russia’s war in his country a “huge threat of escalation” and urged tougher sanctions and isolation against ...

SINGAPORE – For those still harbouring illusions of Singapore as a nation with no history, poet Chim Sher Ting has an eloquent rebuttal, tucked in the final line of her debut collection ...