In the most recent fiscal year that ended in June, 13,429 participants took part in Department of Youth and Community Development-funded adult literacy programs, a 26 percent drop from the year before ...

The last two words received in a letter from the late, much-missed Manchán Magan... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Two Words for Manchán, a poem by Noelle Lynskey above. Cúan Ciúin.

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

Quebec Sen. Amina Gerba travelled to Vancouver with her husband for two 20-hour English courses at a total cost of nearly $22,000 — trips that several parliamentarians say raise ethical questions. The ...

Stigmata draws on inspiration from a wide archive of practices and texts including body horror, postculturalism, queer theory and apophatic theology. The collection of poems combines the "sacred" of ...

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Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poetry readings that appear in this piece.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Englishness is in crisis, again. The self-conscious agonising over our national “character” — and how far we ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Shore Symphonies by Meenakshi Krishnan is a work that confirms poetry's potential to grasp human emotion with beauty and sincerity. It is her third work of verse following ‘Maiden Blooms’ in 2022 and ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...