Rowan mccabe poetry in motion

For 398 days, people have opened their doors — and their hearts — to poet Rowan McCabe . Now, he shares his findings…

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

National treasure Pam Ayres reflects on the enduring power of poetry and why it’s reaching record numbers of people

The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë

NICOLA had been dreaming of this moment for so long – it was important to savour it. Sitting at her writing desk by the window of her newly decorated study, previously a box room, nothing stood in the

Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the o