AMIR DARWISH is a British-Syrian poet of Kurdish origin who came to this country as an asylum-seeker during the second Gulf war, hanging underneath
NOW that the exciting race for this year’s poetry awards has begun with the shock news that the winner of the TS Eliot Prize teache
LOUIS ARAGON (1897-1982) was one of the greatest French poets of the 20th century.
IRISH poet WB Yeats once observed that “out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
BETWEEN 1940 and 1945, over 100,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands and murdered. Of these, 18,000 were children.
THAT headline comes from Jim Greenhalf's declaration in his new book, with an ironic nod to Rousseau.