"Breath," Glyn Maxwell wrote in these pages a few years ago, "is the key to everything. A poem that doesn't acknowledge the limitations and strictures of the breath will fail because it is failing to ...

Collectively Counting is brought to you by First Fortnight, Ireland's Mental Health Festival, in collaboration with poet Stephen James Smith and director Craig Kenny with accompanying music from ...

It has been a quarter century since Jim LaVilla-Havelin's last book of poetry appeared — the critically acclaimed "Simon's Masterpiece" (White Pine, 1983) — a fictional narrative about a black ...

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For native American warriors, counting coup was a way to demonstrate bravery in war. Although killing was a part ofwar, the greater act of courage was to get close enough to touch the enemy.

Poetry is used all around the world as an important way to express how people are feeling and it is a great way of storytelling. National Poetry Day 2024 is celebrated on Thursday 3 October and is a ...

The British poet Maxwell's first U.S. selected presents a conversational style that is a constant throughout, as is the setting of England and New England; otherwise, these often surreal and opaque ...