NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking ...

He must have intuitively matched his jinking, jazz-tinged melodies to Barratt’s blank verse. His unhurried piano-playing introduces most of Barratt’s poems, then anchors the melodies as they meander ...

Associations with Behan aside, Dorset Street is best known in literature as the scene of a stroll by Leopold Bloom in Ulysses ...

YORBA LINDA, CA, UNITED STATES, April 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- At this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Inks ...

Today you could find yourself irresistibly drawn to them, whether we're talking about blank verse, abstract painting ... stroll through an art gallery, go to a poetry reading.

Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations ... a celebrated collection of biographical poems about Johnson. “But his brilliance, his idiosyncrasy, his adeptness in the ...

Gate of Lilacs is, in Clive James’s words, a ‘quinzaine of rhapsodies’: a poem of fifteen parts in blank verse that is also a critical essay on Proust. ‘His book,’ says James, ‘big for a book, is ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

Five writers offer a collection of poetry to welcome spring and, with it, light and hope during uncertain times.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...