His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

A decade and a half ago, a filmmaker friend decided to become a world cinema auteur. Their chosen film school: the Mumbai Film Festival, MAMI, where they watche ...

Christmas is many things, not least an opportunity to remember past years, celebrations and people. With this offering, we’re ...

For author and theatre personality TT Srinath, poetry begins with being alive in the moment. His recently released book of ...

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

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden ...

Help! It’s almost Christmas and I need really cheap and easy presents for my immediate family (six people), plus two grandparents. I’ve been stupidly dragging my feet, ...

Amplifying sacred voicesThe new book also marks the culmination of a long engagement with accounts of women mystics she’s written about, in her earlier books,&n ...

Micháel McCormick ’s poems and short stories have appeared in more than 80 journals and anthologies. He holds a degree in mathematics and takes inspiration from math and science for much of his work.

An Antiques Roadshow guest was shocked to learn the value of a Santa Claus letter that was a 'piece of history' and had been ...

The elegance of a verse and the subtlety of a metaphor have a surprising consequence on the most sophisticated artificial intelligences. Research conducted by the Icaro laboratory in Italy ...

This week, Norman MacCaig falls under his Sauron-like gaze... POETRY is niche. Bung a few volumes on your shelves, preferably a collection called Opaque Stuff That Doesn’t Rhyme, and folk’ll think you ...