The brilliant translation sends readers to an underworld of Caribbean colonizers, politicians, and pop-culture villains The ...

Plenty of drag queens can sing, and plenty of drag queens who can’t sing have released songs anyway. So when an alumnus of RuPaul’s Drag Race makes a foray into the world of recorded music, you can be ...

Gavin and Stacey star Larry Lamb has started penning poetry after a gap of more than 40 years. The actor, who has also written a novel and autobiography, started scribbling stanzas in 1983, but ...

R.P. Smith waits to take the stage on March 9, 2018, at the Merryman Performing Arts Center in Kearney, Nebraska. R.P. Smith steps out of his home on his ranch near Broken Bow, Nebraska. “I’m a better ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

As a new mom who loves a good laugh, especially about the trials and tribulations of being a parent, it was easy to fall in love with these funny, wholesome, and highly-relatable poems about parenting ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, edited by Ruth McKee, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...

We present a quintet of poems from Jan Brierton's new collection, Everybody Is A Poem - Jan talks to Ray D'Arcy above. Following the success of her lockdown tome What Day Is It? Who Gives a F*ck, Jan ...

I’d gone out to rake leaves, lay compost and weed the artichokes we grow on the strip between the sidewalk and the street. I’d been a bit impatient, grumpy even, hacking away. I also discovered that ...